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Drawing from personal experience as a parent, the speaker reflects on childhood innocence and the nature of evil. They admit they never witnessed genuine evil in children or in their neighborhood, only troubled or misguided youth. They acknowledge that when they encountered troubled kids, they intervened—but never saw “evil” in those children, suggesting that environment and intervention matter.
The case of Nick Reiner is starkly different. The speaker describes his act of killing his parents as a deliberate pursuit of violence—"wanting to take his parents with him"—highlighting the severity of his moral failure. They argue that this act cannot be justified by mental illness alone; it was a conscious choice rooted in profound malevolence.