Are people born good or bad?

All people are born naturally good. Babies are plain and simple. It is often that someone is getting a bad person because of his upbringing. It is also due to the influence of his environment. However, I also believe that genes can also affect people's personalities and how they'll respond to a certain condition. Have you seen a kid who seems "older and wiser" than others who have in a same age?

Good question. Have you seen the 1956 movie 'The Bad Seed'? http://wwwimdb.com/title/tt0048977/ Sweet little girl in pigtails is a serial killer on the side. I haven't studied the genetics of personality very much. Hopefully someone can give a more educated answer than I. Genetics do play a part in some mental illnesses such as schizophrenia I think. But that's neither good nor bad. It's an illness that needs treatment.

I think that a person's upbringing is the thing that determines whether they ae good or bad. There is no such thing as an evil gene or people born evil, because that would mean that there is no free will, and that people are pre-destined to be evil or good. Its a persons upbringing, along with the choices they make and are faced with determine who they are.

The moment that we born we are the most innocent human being in the world.So we are born good. It depends where we grow up or who raises us that determines our personality. Everything our parents or friends do we learn from them. Very rarely there are people who are good and stay good after being raised in a bad or violent neighbourhood.