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For the last couple months of my pregnancy I worked as a nanny for a lady who had 2 boys, 3 and 5. The 5-year-old was normal, but the 3-year-old was Satan incarnate. This kid has ISSUES. He would be an absolute angel if anyone else was around (especially his pushover mom), but once it was just me and him he would grow horns and sprout a tail.
If I tried to discipline Satan, Jr. he would yell things like, "I hate you," "I'll kill you," "You're a bad person," "I hate my life," "I wish you were dead," etc. And on several occasions he actually tried to punch/kick my hugely pregnant belly, knowing full-well that there was a baby inside that he could hurt. I got so sick of his shit one day that I just pinned him down until he calmed down, then locked him in his room while I sat on the other side of the door, listening to him yelling all sorts of things that should NEVER even cross a 3-year-old's mind. I told his mom, who wrote it off as a "boy being a boy." In her stupid head, he could do no wrong. He was her baby, and he was just "being a kid." That evil child and his stupid-ass mom both need some SERIOUS help, and a swift kick in the ass.
So, in answer to your question, no, I don't think children are "born evil," but that it takes a combination of genetic predisposition to violence and a lack of good parenting to push a child to sociopathy.
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