Some argue for the case of inherent goodness that because people feel empathy, inherent evil does not exist. Every species on earth expresses empathy in some capacity; animals commiserate with one another over loss, some even practice zoomorphism and take in another kind as their own. Psychologist Bruce Perry explains how evil can take root in someone who considers themselves empathetic, “‘You can have people who have a well-developed capacity for empathy, relating, who are very close to their friends, but who have been raised in an ideology that teaches them that people of another religion, color or ethnic group are bad’”(qtd in Begley). Some people in certain cultures and circumstances have grown up with or have adopted very provincial points
