"What I was trying to do in that post was point out how similar my son and Joran van der Sloot are, at least in ways that are verified to be true."
Thanks.....that explains your benevolent attitude toward JVDS.
Be fair.
My attitude toward JvdS is not "benevolent." It's an attempt to use my own experience with teenaged boys as a basis from which I try to distinguish "sociopathy" from typical teenaged boy behavior; and to be objective by trying to sort out hard evidence from mere malicious rumor.
Also I have posted several times that I too have a beautiful, intelligent, blond daughter who is much like Natalee. And that if she disappeared, I too would go to the ends of the earth to find her.
So I think I can see myself in the shoes of both sets of parents. That does not make me favor one side over the other. Clearly any parent has to feel the most acute sympathy for the Holloway-Twittys. They are living a parent's worst nightmare.