how surreal. during my four months in county, i had met and conversed with a guy tat i deemed to be troubled, but human. he had a very compassionalte way about him, and, once you got past his blank stare (he was 97% blind), it was very easy to see many of my own qualities within him.
why he was in the same place i was, i did not know at the time. but even "normal" people end up in jail from time to time. hell, i was there, and i'm no violent, depraved criminal.
anyways, i later learned that the man was accused of murderig his five year old boy in a fit of rage. his defense was that he was on a bad mixture of prescribed meds and alcohol and believed that he was kicking a pile of clothes.
of course, only he and god know the truth. but the point is that it is easy to see ourselves in even the darkest of monsters.