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Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend
Oh and speaking from experience, just because somebody is capable of a crime such as murder doesn't automatically make them evil despite what the media and society as a whole might think.
I've known a couple of people who are easily capable of such things including a woman a couple of years ago who actually tried to murder her own severely abusive alcoholic mother by attempting to poison one of her drinks but failed and yet, I learned more about how to improve myself and my problems through her than I ever did through a "normal" person, especially therapists so there's that.
So trust your own instincts and not the law nor what other people (including him) say and go from there.
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I understand your points about being "capable" of committing a crime vs actually doing that but in this case, the first challenge to overcome is not that it's questioning whether he's capable but the crime itself was actually committed. This does not guarantee that he will do it again, true but how much more likely is someone that has gone down that crime route before will commit again vs someone who has never committed this or other major crimes? Second challenge is overcoming the idea that actually committing murder is something that is extreme enough that one has to cross a certain barrier of conscience to do this. And this just another person, let alone one's own parents which again crosses even more barriers that most all of us have in place keeping us in line.
I am not minimizing that one can be reformed to a point, but many of us here just have enough problems overcoming past traumas that don't even involve death, and have been fighting changing and overcoming these things for years. I myself am just not able to reconcile this idea that there is no serious damage to this person's conscience and mental health even if it never results in another murderous act.
Your points have some weight, but I'm just saying in this case it might not be quite as simple.