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If no one wants to be evil, why don’t evil people just stop being evil?
2021-04-05
How we are raised and habits learned.
Humans are creatures of habit.
If we develop immoral behavioral patterns, we will be immoral. (i.e. In other words, “teach your children well”.)
Habits, good or bad, will become a part of who you are and can be difficult for a person to recognize in themselves.
How we think.
Thinking is habitual too.
We think in loops. Rehashing the same thinking habits over and over. If it’s a good thinking habit, well that’s good. If not, it can lead bad behavior.
We often never consider that we might be wrong, preventing any hope of correcting personal errors. Self-examination can be one of those good thinking loops
The brain and how it does not always work correctly.
The human body, which includes of course the brain, is far from perfect.
Much bad behavior might have a root cause from biological brain malfunction
Social influences
We care very much about what others think of us.
If we are surrounded by good people, that helps us to be good. If we are surround by bad people, that influences us to be bad.
What is a good person?
No one sets out to be a bad or evil person. To do so intentionally, they would already have to be bad.
For the reasons already mentioned, a bad or evil person might not recognize themselves as being those things.
You might be bad and evil and not even realize it.
