Is evil due to nature or nurture?

Chris Quumo talks with Professor Deborah Denno of Fordham. He studied behavioral genetics of criminal cases and is studying the same twin twins who are also murderers. For more information, please visit HLN's "Inside Evil" program at 8 pm on Sunday. ET

Continue my last article on the nature of evil. A paradigm that is often applied to continuous killers, mass killers, and of course, is an argument about nature and cultivation - he was born this way, but acted according to his nature, genetic or instinctive behavior . Please guide his seeds to destroy themselves ... Or perhaps what happened in childhood? Maybe it is his growing experience, his environment, and how his companion responds to him.

Discussing with nature Discussion with nature is a matter of environmental and genetic influence on behavior and development. In this question, nature can be defined as behavior caused by heredity. This means that the behavior is based on the individual's genetic makeup and is the effect of personal growth and development throughout life. On the other hand, cultivation is the cause of environmental behavior. This means that the impact comes from parents, brothers, families ... Past philosophers and recent scientists discussed the abstract nature and cultivation. Philosophers like Plato believe that all knowledge will be handed down by your parents, and you will be reminded when you are told that you have never learned something. However, Aristotle believes that all humans are born in a blank state, built on this foundation, and will be affected by the environment. In the 1700's, empiricists and internalists took over this argument.

The result of nature and cultivation. In the work of Thomas Hobbes, it is said that human beings were born with evil of nature, having a natural character. John Locke's answer to this theory is that each person was born in a whiteboard, a blank state, and develop a character after a series of experiences. The idea that the true personality is the result of experience and social interaction is the subject of intensive discussion by Frankenstein through Mary Sherry. In a different way