are child molesters and terrorists actually useful because they've survived today? or are they perhaps just a bad mutation that we'll always have?
Child molesters aside perhaps, politicians will argue that terrorists, criminals and so on aren't really so bad to some extent... if they'd be honest. Still, I never met an honest politician. I mean it can't really get more obvious or they find them great excuses to design all kinds of 'clever' laws and extent their influence or power. Not that I mind criminals getting caught of course! Serves them right.
or are they perhaps just a bad mutation that we'll always have?
I personally believe that the mere existence of the opportunity to do crime.. at the same time creates crime.
I don't think people (at least in general) are evil people at all, I just think there are a lot of people who fall for the temptations of doing basically very very stupid things. I'm not talking about accidental crimes, I'm talking about people that at some point, through just being in the situations they are in, decide to do wrong. Greedy but stupid.
From a psychological point of view, there are many reasons why people would 'become' a child molester, terrorist and so on.
Considering the huge impact of human psychology on people's actions, I definitely do not believe that people are born a criminal so to speak.
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