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[quote=Anonymous]I think it was ill advised to put all these kids together. Summer camp for psychopaths indeed.  Learn how to be even better at being cruel and getting away with it!

I agree that there are indeed psychopaths in our midst and they were children once, too.  The traits are there in childhood.  If we can diagnose and intervene to keep these kids from growing up to hurt people, that can only be a good thing.   Even better if we can actually reach them and instill empathy and a genuine ability to love.

I keep thinking of the men who killed the Petit family in Connecticut.  How cold they are even now in interviews. How they just don't seem to FEEL anything.  One of them picked the victims, went home and put his own child to bed, then came back to the Petit home to tie those girls up etc.  He talks about having to live with what he did, but his statements convey no genuine remorse.  If someone had intervened effectively when he was a child, could his victims have been spared?  [/quote]

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