Although it's not truly evil to err or make a mistake without desiring another person to suffer, it's effectively harmful as well. Thus, "innocent" and "harmless" are not the same: from this viewpoint, it's not so much " Kids Are Cruel" as Kids are Obliviously Evil/ Kids Are Ingenues. Hanlon's Razor and Grey's Law present an interesting related notion: assume an action arises from stupidity or ignorance until it is proven to be intentional evil, and that sufficiently misguided actions are indistinguishable from actual evil (in a similar vein to Poe's Law). It should be noted that the Trope Namer Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not philosophize that humans in their natural state were actually "good", but rather humans who are without a social contract have no morality/concept of good and evil and as such, will act in their own self-interest but cannot do so maliciously-that is to say, that people are naturally innocent in the same way children are commonly understood to be. On the rare occasions when characters who would be regarded as Complete Monsters in other settings do show up, their unrealized potential for good and the depths to which they have fallen instead are usually played up as tragic. Settings in which Rousseau was right always avert Villainous Lineage, Moral Event Horizon, and Complete Monster.
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