[Serious] Good vs Evil

[paulpablo]

I think you don’t understand the difference between good and innocent. Also, I think you’re so silly as to believe that someone doing a bad thing automatically makes them a bad person.

All children are innocent. Likely all children are naturally good (if you believe in a person being able to be “good”), but they obviously can be manipulated by adults.

I disagree with the last bit from experiences I've had with children.  Since before my daughter could speak at all she laughs at things in pain, being hit and so on.  Like Tom and Jerry, Masha and the bear, all those cartoons. They will try and lie and manipulate adults pretty early on. 

 Or another example is they tend to run after cats or other fragile animals and hit them or at least be rough with them.  It's only through learning or copying off adults they stroke cats, pet them and treat them nice.  

I suppose they don't understand the consonances of their actions in terms of killing or hitting things so that could be an argument against them being evil at all.  But I think even when children are slightly older and do understand consequences they're just as capable of evil.  At least based on a vague definition of evil covering things like causing unneccesary harm to things for fun.

There was a book called Lord Of The Flies and I think it related to this quite a lot.  No spoilers for people who haven't read it but some kids got stuck on an island together and they didn't all treat each other very nicely.