Born Evil?

[Bathsheba]

Due to going off topic in another thread I thought i might ask the question in here. What do people think? Are some people born evil? After doing a bit of Googling I found a good assessment which aligns to what I believe:

Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D.,
President, American Psychological Association

It is easy to identify individuals who willfully degrade and destroy other human beings as "evil." Starting with the Biblical characterization of Lucifer as God's favorite angel transformed into the dark force of the devil and cast into hell, scores of evildoers fill history's hall of shame. In recent times, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and many others stand out as mass murderers. However, as a social psychologist I prefer to identify situational conditions that can facilitate or seduce good people into becoming perpetrators of evil, such as adherence to destructive ideologies, rules, roles, uniforms, group norms, along with processes of dehumanization, deindividuation and moral disengagement.

So... I don't think I believe in Demon seeds as such... but who really knows I guess.

Mods: if this subject is too volatile please feel free to remove. It might not be appropriate in this forum. I hope people can post thoughtfully on the issue. It's a subject that has been raised in several threads in BB over the years i have been a member but always been OT.