A to Z Quick Chat 93 | Do you think people are born good or bad?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the question: Do you think people are born good or bad? Transcript: 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast, where Jack and Social take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the English language. Our podcast is designed for non-native speakers who are looking to improve their English skills in a fun and interactive way. Each episode covers a wide range of topics. 00:00:23 Jack From grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture to help you navigate the English speaking world with ease. 00:00:35 Jack Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I am here with my co-host social. And today we have a quick chat episode and today's quick chat question is, do you believe that people are born? 00:00:48 Jack Good or born bad? 00:00:52 Jack Or do you think that? 00:00:54 Jack It's different from person to person. 00:00:57 Jack So. So. So what do you think about that? Do you think people are born good or born bad, like Hitler was born bad? Or Mother Teresa was born good? 00:01:10 Xochitl Jack, I have a. 00:01:11 Xochitl Hard time with this one because I'm a I'm a true crime enthusiast and. 00:01:16 발표자 Me too. 00:01:18 Xochitl It's hard because there's people that. 00:01:21 Xochitl In rare cases, there are situations where like there's no report of a traumatic childhood and stuff for certain psychopaths and serial killers. 00:01:31 Xochitl And even then, there's usually. 00:01:32 Xochitl A reason like a traumatic brain injury or something from an accident. 00:01:37 Xochitl But I think most people are not born evil enough to be serial killers. And hmm and and people are complex. I think good is is very reductive for those listeners who don't know, that means it simplifies it too much. But I think it really depends on the person. 00:01:58 Xochitl And their experiences and how they choose. 00:02:02 Xochitl Ultimately, how they choose to process those experiences or what they choose to do. 00:02:09 Xochitl With those experiences, cause I know that you can have someone who had really bad experiences and they might use those as an excuse and a justification to be abusive later, or to be. 00:02:23 Xochitl To outlet their trauma in destructive ways. Or you could have someone who had the exact same experiences and chooses to grow from them and not subject anyone else to the kind of abuse or horrible situations they suffer. 00:02:37 발표자 4 Right, yeah. 00:02:40 Xochitl But I don't think anyone. 00:02:41 Xochitl Is all good or all bad? We've all done bad things. 00:02:46 Jack Yes, yes, you're right, I. 00:02:49 Jack Think I think we all have the capacity, the ability to to do good or to do bad. 00:02:56 Jack But the question, yeah, this is a tough one because I'm just thinking of like again, I'm thinking of, like, serial killers and like the ones that that had, like, good parents. Like they weren't. They didn't have, like, a terrible. 00:03:13 Jack You know, childhood or, you know, they had parents that were not terrible and and home lives that were not full of trauma. They weren't traumatic. And then they still wanted to act out in this way. 00:03:32 Jack I feel like it's. 00:03:33 Jack It's possible, but maybe it's a it's a lot smaller percentage of people than we think that our maybe just born bad. 00:03:43 Jack They're just like they're they're missing something, but I think it I think for for the people to. 00:03:50 Jack I think for for example, for a a a person to commit murder, there has to be a lot of different. There has to be like a lot. 00:04:00 Jack Of factors taken in, it's like it's not just that they were born bad, but it's also that there was, you know, a bad environment when they were growing up and then. 00:04:11 Jack Also, there was an opportunity for them to commit a crime, and so it's like it's kind of like a perfect storm. 00:04:22 Jack When people commit really horrible crimes like like