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The thing that restrains a person is their upbringing. The morality and ethics that they are taught when they are growing up.

I disagree.

People are of course taught morality and ethics while growing up. Even those with a horrible childhood are taught horrible ethics, often by example.

Each person can choose whether to accept or reject their upbringing.

A very large number of those with horrible childhoods become good people as adults.

A much smaller, thankfully, number of those with good upbringings choose to behave monstrously.

I'm listening to a book right now on the Leopold and Loeb case. Both had a perfectly normal, indeed highly privileged, upbringing. They chose to turn to evil, out of boredom and a highly mistaken superiority complex.

On re-reading my comments above, I realize I've been too dogmatic. Some people really are insane, others choose to do evil for a variety of reasons, and some are perhaps a combination. Very hard to tell which.