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Interesting how "likely" is doing all the work in the first half of your comment thereby underscoring just how fragile your claims ultinately are, but I get it.
I get the Marxist tendency to judge behavior by its conditions and circumstances.
It's however a completely separate thing to make up a person's life story to make it fit with the Marxist theory of alienation. That's working backwards from a conclusion and not very Marxist, much less psychoanalysis.
As for your question, I don't share its underlying assumption. Yes, people are products of their environment, but that in of itself doesn't equal victimhood, let alone in cases of rape and murder. Marxism, after all, accounts for agency just fine.
I wasn't really talking about Marxism, I was just talking about my own opinion I haven't really read any theory yet. I'm not sure what I think about agency, physics literally denies it.
And of course I don't know the backstory of this person but I'm sure we can both agree that he almost certainly did not have a normal life. Yes I'm still hedging with "almost" but whatever.
I could've sworn you're at least somewhat familiar with Marxism the way you talk about alienation as well as your defense of China, but that's okay, and yes, I agree that the rapist almost certainly did not have a normal life, but there's also a possibility he grew up in a perfectly loving environment and still ended up raping and killing, because sometimes no amount of nurture can change one's nature.