[albie]

I’m not sure about the “you could have been a better parent argument”. Some people are just born evil.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I'm not into judgement. I can't, however, embrace this father's comments. Whatever he feels in his heart, the proper response would have been to say that you felt you must have failed at some crucial point along the way, and that you will never forgive yourself for not seeing this outcome long before, and to express your lifelong sorrow. Publicly stating that you wish your child had never been born is, to me, too self-serving, and too easy.

[wideawake]

We are all born evil.

One of the best life observations St. Augustine made in his Confessions was that a newborn baby, if he had the strength of a man, would maim or kill anyone who took away his food or denied him anything he wanted.

In the beginning, we all have that destructive rage in us.

Nurture may not make you much smarter, or taller, or better looking, but it does make the difference between being a moral person or not.

The issue here heavily involves Lanza's illness. Nurture cannot heal schizophrenia.