I'll go for a minute here, and tell ya VB, that it wouldn't be the same if you tried to please the masses, do and say what you think we want to hear....if you "forced" things....as long as it comes from your heart and mind, as long as you doing what reflects you, and/or your current mood or thoughts, then its the right thing to do!

At first thought, some people would say that this is the act of a sociopath, or one in development. The problem with this is that a sociopath enjoys the pain that they cause to living things, and does so freely because they simply don't feel remorse of guilt for what they do.

The actions they took indicate that they feel remorse or guilt for their actions because they couldn't actively cause the pain to the targeted being, and the design of the crime would allow for them not to be there as a living creature was hurt. Whoever did this might have thought that they could easily claim a mental defect defense based solely on the horrible nature of the crime.

The good news is that s/he'll likely lose the case if s/he if they don't take a deal, which means that the judge will likely order the maximum punishment. The even better news, if he wins the case, they still send him/her to a state run mental institution which is usually a much worse place to spend out a criminal sentence than most prisons. This idiots life got screwed up the minute their thought process was lacking.