"In each of us there are, potentially, all the elements and qualities of the human being, the germs of all virtues and of all vices. In each of us there are the potential criminal and the potential saint or hero. It is a question of different development, valuation, choice, control, and expression."
Roberto Assagioli, The Act of Will

Yes. There is also the communal context and its powerful social forces shaping individual freedom and development or lack thereof. And there are the hidden, deeply mysterious gifts of trust and grace, even in vice and virtue--or tragedy.