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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a person who was horribly abused, in a big fancy house, by parents who were extremely well respected and appeared very normal to everyone outside of the family—I don’t doubt abuse for one second with murder of parents.

Occum’s razor — they were pushed to the edge by abuse? Or so spoiled they shot their parents multiple times at close range with a shotgun?  I’m not saying they aren’t sociopaths; I’m saying even if they are it is highly unlikely they’d kill because they are spoiled. [/quote]

I agree with that.  I mean, it’s hardly surprising that there was something seriously seriously wrong in that house when you have two young men who would brutally murder both parents, even if it was “for the money.”  So the abuse is extremely credible.  I think it’s their age that gets them so much less sympathy and (to a lesser extent) the money.  One of the brothers at least had already moved across country.  Even after failing out of Princeton, he could have gone to some community college and gotten a job like any other schlub and never seen his parents again.  
What’s more amazing to me is that trafficked teenage girl who shot her rapist and still got convicted and is in prison.  I mean, she really didn’t have other good options and was still in the captured mindset.  The menendez brothers had already been largely out of the house for a good period of time.

I might also be more sympathetic if they only killed the dad — like they didn’t want him to molest anyone else.  But was there any suggestion the mom was a more general danger to other kids?  
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