"Do you not accept that some people are just not nice?"
Can honestly say I've never met a three/six/nine-month-old 'narsty bastard'.
Children are a blank page - you and me 'write the story' - get it wrong - take the consequences.
"Anyone remember the Bad Seed'
Yeah, and Damien, and The Omen, and The Exorcist; and read Bradbury's The Small Assassin, and The Veldt, and James's Turn of The Screw - great entertainment, but they're all fairy stories.
Does anybody seriously believe in 'original sin' and inherent evil?
That is what is being proposed here.
Jim Carroll