One idea that came up in a conversation I had today is that you can't really judge people based on their family. Case in point, Jesus and Satan are spiritually siblings, as are we. In the pre-mortal realm, we all had a basically similar upbringing. Theoretically, we all should have turned out fairly similar, but we didn't. Despite having the same heavenly parents, we all turned out very differently, proving that there are times when the apple does, in fact, fall far from the tree.
Thus, I think it's foolish to judge anyone based on their family. We can assume a likelihood of some degree of similarity, but we can't say for certain how likely they are to be like their family or how similar they are likely to be. We just can't say. So, instead of judging people by their families, we should judge them by their actions (when it's necessary to judge them at all).
It is unwise to judge anyone by their family. The variety of our spiritual family and the human family proves that.
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