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People always say, "only the good die young." But that made me think. What if long-lived people are just more likely to do bad stuff over the course of their lives? Because everyone does good and bad stuff.
IMHO whether or not a person will ever be a domestic abuser or rapist is pretty much determined by the time they reach adulthood. It's not like a good man suddenly decides to start beating his wife or raping teenagers.
The only counter I have to that is how sensitive our brains are to chemical, mental, and physical trauma.
Drugs, injury, and environmental stress cause easily observable behavior changes, but also changes on the brain measurable in medical imaging. And there's a lot of acknowledgement that these changes can occur in childhood and persist.
I don't think anyone chooses to be cruel, I think it's forced on them in ways they can't do anything about, and as a society we owe it to them to do better and help them.