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9. Because the answers...

might frighten people.

no one wants to reflect on our screwed up so society and how a seemingly, "normal" kid fell down the crazy hole. Because that would mean certain sectors of society would, you know, actually have to talk to their children and get to know them.

Given the amount of various mass shootings by what authorities like to profile as "troubled kids", this particular instance shows a "normal" kid aka "a good looking kid", taking a massive wrong turn into terrorism.

No one in the mouth breathing public wants to entertain the fact that even "good looking" kids can get completely fucked up.

My personal take on this whole thing is this: me being the younger brother to a handsome dynamic older brother who "got all the girls" and me being the nerd dweeb doing all I could just to not be made fun of while I was growing up, idolized my brother and followed his lead. If he told me to do something, I did it. Not out of desperate robotic need to obey, but because he was the cool guy that I so wanted to be. And there was nothing he could tell me, at certain point in my life, that I thought anything he said was wrong.

And this is what I feel happened here with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not absolving him of anything, I just think he was an easy mark for his crazy ass older brother.