The difference between a sinner and a saint, a law-abiding citizen and the practicing criminal is not such a wide gap.
More determinism-driven than free-willing is how a person lands where she does along the continuum of potential roles to adopt as a life-choice. She has the capacity to play any role available along that continuum. With love, parentally instilled self-esteem, a religious upbringing, ethics tutelage and proper training, she will do just fine most of the time.
The difference between the lawful citizen and the criminal is one of degree not kind. We must think about this outside of our arrogant, smug, ignorant, complacent, and subjective of things to realize and accept that any of us, in the wrong circumstances, could act a whole lot worse. Criminals are not different from us, neither better or worse. As St. Augustine noted (I think it was him.), there but for the grace of God go I.
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