Children who dont hear No, or do not hear it often enough, find themselves living in a world which is much too large, and much too hard to navigate, without simplistic and generally destructive heuristics. If patents do not provide boundaries—lines of demarcation—their grown children will grasp straws in the flood.
Evil is in important respects nothing more complicated than an inability to feel life within one’s self. It is, perhaps, a striving for life by those unable to know it. We are all born with an innate urge to light, and to an internal sun. But if you do not know what the sun feels like, you will be lost for a very very long time.