Answer to Question #240557 in Psychology for sam

Question

Can you nurture someone to be evil?

Answer 1

Whether people are born evil or they learn to be evil - 'Nurture or Nature'- is a topic of debate that has got no end to itself. To cut the long story short, some aspects of mental health have been shown to have a genetic background (nature), while others have been attributed to learning (Nurture). Being evil is largely a mental health problem and research has shown that genetic factors play an important role in the development of mental health, but it is not the contributing factor. My answer is yes and no because both 'Nurture and Nature' can contribute to a person becoming evil. It is however difficult to measure how much of each has contributed most or least.