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Re: About the Masons...
June 4 2011, 23:31:58 UTC 6 years ago
Come to think of it, if the Masons do behave that way, that would be why. I refuse to see this as a "crime" on their part. I'm also morally opposed to blaming parents for the way that a grown man behaves. Either he, as an adult, is responsible for his actions, and they, as adults, are responsible, or none of them are because they are all kind of broken, but you can't hold them totally responsible and him not.
Re: About the Masons...
June 6 2011, 12:57:56 UTC 6 years ago
Nor do I. He's a big boy now, and (entirely justifiable) PTSD or not, he's just lucky he has such understanding associates. Most people's patience, rightly or wrongly, runs thin after a year of violent madness, after all. My point was more to do with the 'nature or nurture' argument, and the Mason home sounds like such a massively unhealthy environment-- especially where emotions are concerned-- that the guy never had a chance to learn any way of coping. That anything he ever leared about emotions he had to figure out on his own, with only ever the help of an equally scarred kid just six weeks his senior. The Masons probably couldn't help it. But parentally, fucking up a kid's head that badly... that's just a sin and a shame. They are a pair of broken people who raised their kid(s) to be equally broken, and it's painful to read, that's all.