Plenty of monsters with support systems, plenty of decent people who have been beaten down by life and left to fend on their own.

‘Plenty of monsters with support systems’ - so were they inherently monsters? If yes, then they couldn’t help it, like a polar bear can’t help hunting. We don’t call polar bears ‘monsters.’ We call them predators, which is what humans become when their ‘support’ teaches them cruelty, not care.

‘Plenty of decent people beaten down by life’ - same logic. No inherent goodness, just luck: someone, somewhere, showed them ‘don’t be cruel’ before it was too late.

I don’t believe in inherent good or evil.

You don’t have to be shown. All it takes to be a good person is empathy. All it takes to be a bad one is its lack.

That statement dangerously oversimplifies human behavior and stigmatizes neurodivergent individuals, particularly those on the autism spectrum, who may experience empathy differently but are not inherently “bad.”

They may experience it differently, but if they can act on it, they will be good people. Without being able to act on empathy, no matter how you perceive it, you cannot be good, and refusing to act with empathy towards people and other lives on earth is bad.

So if someone literally cannot “act” in some way, you get to decide if they are good or evil?

How else can you judge someone’s character if not by their actions?