I gave this some thought before responding. So much depends on your world view.
I don't know how Mormons view the human condition, but for Catholics and Protestants, the view of humans is basically total depravity; everyone is completely separated from God and equally capable of evil acts. Is the Mormon belief different?
For me. actions are the result of training and habit. Evil acts don't require a provocation, but mere an inclination, based on how the person has learned to respond to the world. This can also vary greatly by social context. Men who would never harm their wife become rapists while being soldiers, and vice-versa.
I do not want to sidetrack this topic, but I want to reference the correct Catholic teaching. As well as some of the early protestant reformers understanding of human nature in relation to God. Humans are not completely separated from our creator.
The following quotes are from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
405 Although it is proper to each individual,295 original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but
human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called concupiscence". Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.
406 The Church's teaching on the transmission of original sin was articulated more precisely in the fifth century, especially under the impulse of St. Augustine's reflections against Pelagianism, and in the sixteenth century, in opposition to the Protestant Reformation. Pelagius held that man could, by the natural power of free will and without the necessary help of God's grace, lead a morally good life; he thus reduced the influence of Adam's fault to bad example.
The first Protestant reformers, on the contrary, taught that original sin has radically perverted man and destroyed his freedom; they identified the sin inherited by each man with the tendency to evil (concupiscentia), which would be insurmountable. The Church pronounced on the meaning of the data of Revelation on original sin especially at the second Council of Orange (529)296 and at the Council of Trent (1546).297
If you need any further clarification you can message me, although I must admit that I do not check this message board daily.
