ah yes, the ol' Phineas Gage...had his head blown-up in an unfortunate railway constuction accident, seems he lived but once he healed the people who knew him discovered he had lost completely his ability to behave ethically. basically he was a dick...

i'm not really evil, but i am wicked fucked-up sometimes, and my new shaved head makes me look wicked intense. so to answer your question, i don't know whether evil is a choice, my personal beliefs are that ethics are inherent in people, but most philosifers would take me to task for that overly simplistic view. i like the idea of our culture being fed a diet of attractive evil people, i live in Hollywood and it's practically a religion here (yeah, it's called Scientology)

please post the ideas from your book, i'm very interested.