Ind. teen charged with strangling brother, 10 Boy pleads: ‘Andrew, stop’; 17-year-old then drives to girlfriend's house

Cover of Lord of the Flies, Educational Edition

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What caught me about this story, was first of all that it is horribly tragic. What made me want to write about it is a quote by one of the prosecutors of the case. "Sometimes people are just evil," Dearborn-Ohio County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard said. "This is an evil child." Its back to the nature vs. nurture. Born evil, can we be born evil or if you don't buy the religious overtones of evil. Can we born to have no inherent morals? Is it civilization that makes us "good." Like Lord of the Flies, would we all be monsters if we weren't controlled by social institutions like family, school, government, religion, etc.?

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