Good and Evil

[Coney]

Originally posted by Sister Golden Hair
Perhaps it is the amount of understanding the act in the mind of the perpetrator. For example: if a child kills another child, with the intent of killing, how much does that child understand the act or the evil of it? Isn't this why kids can't be tried as adults under a certian age?

Yes I agree, to commit a truely evil act then you have to fully understand what you are doing (children, the clinically insane etc don't really understand the full implications of their actions)....that's why I raised the question of wether people think that an evil action in inherant.