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Old 09-29-2011, 10:30 AM
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Question Interesting

It is interesting that a sizable group don't really understand the point that I
think is important. An analogy would be what if he was a "pedophile" or fell
under the Sexual Predator' category? If the person served a short jail term and then released to society is he/she no longer of any concern? Of course not. Here you have a person who killed and tortured defenseless animals and after 1 1/2 years of confinement he is now healed and mentally stable and ready to reenter society without any future treatments. I think not. Serving 1 1/2 years for being abusive is paying a debt to society but not a license that means all of your mental problems are now gone. What drove the person to be so cruel and lack of conscience is a serious question and not easily answered or allegedly cured by a year and a half. I am not a therapist but just plain common sense would indicate this person has some potential deep rooted problems and maybe is very disturbed. As I understand it being raised in "the hood" does not necessarily give a person a free pass to have serious mental and/or behavior problems and to kill and abuse animals, etc.
Net: His conduct would indicate some form of lack of conscience and that is a very serious problem and may not be cured by some limited jail time. It would be interesting what a therapist would say with him returning to a violent world and continuing to claim he is now a "victim" of that world? As the noted Harvard psychiatrist wrote that not all people who claim they are victims have serious problems but is it an early warning sign for some. In the
press he has complained that he is not receiving a "roughing the quarterback" penality as are being called against other quarterback??? A victim ?