Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.