"Amr isn't a stupid or dangerous person. Just needs reprogramming and refocus of his talents."...
Scotton, what you wrote is true of a sane, normally developed individual! And how do you know he is not 'dangerous'?
You FORGOT that Amr has had problems all his life distinguishing right from wrong and this inability tells me that something is 'missing' from him! He admits that he is mentally unbalanced, too in addition to his other problem.
Amr is not sane according to his own word. It follows that not being sane puts Amr in the category of not being normal! He sees the world differently than many others see the world!
I feel sorrow as others feel, sorrow for the family, but I also know that people who do not realize that they have committed wrong, will go RIGHT BACK to doing the same wrong again, once they are back in society!
I believe that Amr is one of these people whom will go back to doing the same as he has done in the past!
His inability to understand right from wrong started when he was still a teen when his father paid his way out of a very serious situation where Amr was accused of a felony against another young person!
Amr has written that his father was too serious with him and punished him excessively...
What would you do with a son who beat up on another kid with a weapon, and almost killed the kid...and YOU, the father, bailed the son out of trouble by paying the other boy's family a great deal of money? Wouldn't you be a 'strict' father with this boy? Wouldn't you?
It is very sad that Amr’s children are to suffer! Perhaps they will grow up to understand that what a person does to others comes back to them in some way later on in life. Perhaps Amr’s sons will NOT repeat what he has done?
Yes, Amr is very talented BUT he has turned his gift to hurting innocents...he does not have a 'clue' that what he has done has hurt so many very good people! There are people who have lost their life savings, have lost their life’s dreams, because of his actions! There are others who post on SI and support Amr because they do the same as he...they also do not have a 'clue' that what they do is wrong! It is clear that not all people are born with the same capabilities of understanding of what is moral and what is not moral!
If I could choose where Amr would go I would send him to a mental health facility where I would house him indefinitely until he was a productive member of society who had learned to NOT take advantage of others whom he saw as weaker in ability than he. That rehabilitation could take years! Putting Amr in a mental health facility would be a more humane system of rehabilitation than putting him in a prison!
Sadly, we do not have this more humane system in place. Perhaps some day, placing people like Amr in mental health facilities will be the 'norm' instead of sending them to prison?
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