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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does everyone feel about the Menendez brothers - Lyle and Eric shotgunned their parents in cold blood to get their hands on their parents' money? Think Eric was 19 and Lyle 21 at the time. They look whitish.[/quote]

I think (and have long thought) there was probably something very very wrong in their home growing up.  It does not excuse what they did, but children from a relatively normal home without major mental problems just do not murder their parents.

When I saw the photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev it made me sick to my stomach.  I have nephews this age, and it was an inability to understand how this happens to a kid that seems so normal.  Everything he did is unforgivable, but that does not mean it makes sense or it will not scare people (particularly parents) when they see a path that a child has chosen to walk down that is so disturbed.  It is easier to accept if you can attribute it to mental illness.

I have a relative in DH's family that I think has mild anti-social personality disorder.  Because he has a strong interest in self preservation, I think it is unlikely he would ever do anything truly awful, and he has never harmed anyone to my knowledge.  But if he did there would NOT be a line of people reporting how normal and well liked he was.

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