badgenome on 25 June 2012
No, we shouldn't. If you are correct and no one is responsible for his choices and everyone is just a product of what society and his upbringing made him, then it is all the more important for society to revile - not sympathize with - such people so as to discourage other people from taking that path. Once society begins to sympathize with those actions, it is inevitable that those actions will become increasingly seen as somehow legitimate.
