Very few people do evil on their own initiative. Many do nothing to stop it.
If you want to be a good person, you probably shouldn't invest a great deal of effort or thought into not drowning children. After all, unless you got really unlucky with the genes/environment roulette, you're probably not going to turn into a sadistic serial killer the moment you stop exerting an intense mental effort to not do so. What's more important is to not be a potato. You see, the problem with being a potato is that potato's don't do much. They don't fulfil their potential, they don't change the world and they certainly don't stand up to Hitler.
If you sit around doing nothing, or do only what is expected of you in your time and place, you're probably being a potato. Stop. Try and find a better path. You probably can. Better yet, try and do some good. There are lot's of drowning children to save and it it usually doesn't take much more than effort to do so.
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