>>Just curious. It sounds like you are excusing these people from taking responsibility for their actions because they had a rough childhood. Is this the case?
If I say that cancer is caused by runaway cells that can eventually kill their host, am I excusing the cancer?
I suppose I could scold the naughty cells, telling them to get a proper job and stop wrecking everything, but I'm not sure that would work and certainly other available responses aren't much fun, so let us hope that one day we can come up with responses that don't hurt the host almost as much as they hurt the outliers.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
