Paul Conti

There's a simplicity there that people want that when people don't have.

And there's certain other factors, maybe they're temperamental factors or historical factors, can lead to trying to soothe that deficit, right, through envy.

And I think it starts with that.

And it often starts in childhood, not always, but it often starts in childhood when the

child's brain and psychology are so vulnerable.

And, you know, you see salient child abuse.

If you look at what was Hitler's background and what was Stalin's background, I mean, you could look at almost anyone who's perpetrated evil, whether they're serial killers or whatever it may be.

The majority, not everyone, but the majority had these lessons in childhood that said, you're not good enough, you can't keep yourself safe, no one cares about you.

And in a subset of people,

That's going to generate envy.

That seed of evil then gets planted and nurtured.

As a fighter jet roars above us.

It would be good if I had orchestrated that.

We might take that for granted as a population, but I do agree.

I believe the answer is yes.

Do we all have the possibility of evil in us?

I think the answer to that is yes.

But we have free will.

We have choice.

We can choose what we do with that.