Exactly. I’ve even seen cases of murder where I sympathize with the perpetrator. But we need to not get too involved with the narrators plight. It’s a first person story and it’s easy to get strung along by that perspective.

For the article and the many admissions in the thread underneath people can’t just pay attention to and sympathize with the perpetrator you need to take the next step an construct realistic avatars for his relationships and visualize the intense damage done to them as well.