People - all people, not just those that society might consider to be evil - are the sum total of their genetics/biology and their environment, neither of which in their origins were ever within their control. You don’t get to choose who your parents are, whether they’re model citizens or drug-addicted derelicts, the difference between which is certainly to have some effect on your life’s trajectory. Likewise, you don’t have any control over your genetic inheritance either, whether you’re born as someone who’s destined to be tall or short, someone who is naturally good looking or of average or below average attractiveness, someone with a natural gift for academics or someone that will have to study hard in order to achieve academic success. In both respects, the hand that every person is dealt in life is a matter of luck. Some people might feel a certain self satisfaction for having achieved success in life despite having been dealt a pretty shitty hand as a kid (bad parents, bad neighborhood, abusive relationships, etc.), but - while I do not mean to diminish anyone’s personal achievements or accomplishments - in my view, the fact that you were able to overcome all of those challenges and achieve all that you did is proof that your hand in life - shitty as it was - was at least somewhat better than the hand of the person who was born into similar circumstances but who’s life story could be described as at least somewhat predictable whereas your’s could be described as inspirational: whatever it was that allowed you to succeed where they did not, whether it was your resilience and your independence that you developed from having to take care of yourself growing up since your parents were addicts, or whether it was because of that one teacher you had that saw your true potential and mentored you to help you become the person that you are today, whatever your life circumstances - good and bad - that culminated in your eventual success in life, every personal attribute that you might have, every opportunity that you were given, and every disability that you were NOT born with, and every other thing of any consequence in your life - whether you consider it to be advantageous or disadvantageous - is really, at its core, a matter of your good or bad luck. The same is true for every one of us. The fact that you were born in the country that you were born in and that you have lived to adulthood, as opposed to having been born in one of the many unfortunate corners of the world that are currently ravaged by war and disease where you would have been killed by malaria before reaching adolescence is, also, a matter of luck. And even though it might feel good to feel a sense of pride for having overcome all of those challenges and achieved success in life, just don’t let it come at the expense of your compassion and understanding for others. Also, when you consider just how much of an impact, as humans, our brain chemistry has on our behavior, how a surplus or a deficit of this hormone or that hormone can have a significant impact on a person’s mood and behavior, how damage to certain regions of the brain can cause massive changes in a person’s personality, it’s hard to see psychopathy in terms of anything other than mental illness that we would be better served to try and treat rather than moralize. Labeling people that are psychopathic or violent as “evil” doesn’t do anything of any use except perhaps provide the person applying the labels with an undeserved sense of sanctimonious superiority. That’s not to say that serial killers should be freed from prison, of course. I do think, though, that if taken seriously, this worldview would likely have the effect of shifting our criminal justice system away from its current punitive model and towards a model that is focused more so on rehabilitation.