I imagined you were but it is hard to determine from bald prose. It would have been unwise of me to have assumed so and responded accordingly if it had been a sincere (if naive) statement on your part.

Equally I think a dose of cynicism may be required in your reading of the various papers on the subject, and the tendency to adopt an essentially benevolent view of deviant behaviours that has the effect of absolving the individual of responsibility is also rather glib, and panders dangerously to the culture of victimhood that they so willingly embrace. Many of those drawn into this sort of lifestyle come from loving families and have mothers who are ignorant of their son's ugly proclivities. There are very strong cultural influences at play, which we often choose to find it expedient to ignore.