Roots Of Evil Research Paper

Is everyone who commits a crime considered having a dark heart? There are many people who commit crimes but are not actually evil. Some humans could be born into a bad living environment therefore changes their view on life and become evil. Or they could just be born that way and nothing you can do about it. A person's true intentions and their actions determine the darkness of their heart. Over a period of time everyone makes an act of evil but in reality are not evil at heart. During people's lifetime, at some point they will get angry. Sometimes it leads them to making bad choices that they really do not mean. From the story What Makes Us Moral “ Sometimes we can't help it, as when we’re suffering from clinical insanity and behavior slips …show more content…
There are many different types of evil in today's society. People who are evil can do more harm depending on their mind set. In the story The Roots Of Evil there is a continuum of evil, of course, ranging from ‘trivial evils’ like cutting someone in traffic, to greater evils like acts of prejudice, to massive evil like those perpetrated by serial of sexual killers, but within us all are the roots of evil”(Simon). Therefore there are many ways someone can show evil.To this dat there are people who are evil and that will never change. There are many evil humans known to man but the name that stands out the most is Hitler. He made innocent humans live in horrific living conditions where they would die because of starvation and diseases or by getting killed by a guard. He is a very sick man who did an evil act that will never be forgotten in history. In the story The Roots Of Evil “ The genesis of Hitler’s evil, for instance is variously ascribed to sexual inadequacy, maternal smothering, paternal violence and narcissistic borderline personality disorder”(Begley 14) Hitler was a dark hearted man who had no care in the world to what he was doing to