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A classic "prima donna"


Brian Britton is a great example of what I term prima donnas. Self-absorbed, self-concerned, selfish individuals who do not care about other people, including in some cases members of their own family.

They are not the product of mental or physical abuse but rather being treated as if they are little princes who haven't done anything wrong from an early age on. They are not adequately punished or disciplined for destructive and disrespectful behavior directed at their parents and siblings.

Then when they reach adolescence and still exhibit disrespectful and disruptive behavior parents are confronted with a big problem. What to do and how to do it to bring their wild child under control. In this case the efforts of the parents to reign in their destructive little monster didn't work.

He's eligible for parole now but I doubt that he will be paroled because his victims included his 8-year-old brother.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/23/nyregion/parents-and-a-brother-slain-by-self-styled-rambo-16.html
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Its terrible but I don't think a child who could do something like that is spoiled. I would guess he is insane and should be in a mental institution....if there's any left!

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That is 28 years ago, and he was only 16 then.
Seems like parole, depending on evaluation, would be reasonable?
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he was denied parole a couple of years ago because he showed no sign of remorse or empathy. He hasn't even tried to contact his sister who he shot and left to die.

not sure about using the word prima donna
more like a garden variety sociopath.
  
  I've never understood why sociopath seem to always come from a strong family backgrounds.

thank goodness he's low-functioning and didn't have the skills necessary to manipulate under the radar or figure out what the parole board was looking for otherwise he would of probably gotten paroled.
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Its terrible but I don't think a child who could do something like that is spoiled. I would guess he is insane and should be in a mental institution....if there's any left!



I wouldn't use the word spoiled either. It's more complicated than that. A kid like this grows up being not only self-absorbed but very unconcerned about other people. You can be spoiled and still be taught to respect and care about other people, at least to some extent.

This particular kid was inadvertently raised to be so self-absorbed, concerned about himself and what he wanted as well as disrespectful towards his parents and siblings that he ended up murdering three of them and almost killing his sister as well.

 
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That is 28 years ago, and he was only 16 then.
Seems like parole, depending on evaluation, would be reasonable?



It's unlikely to happen because he murdered his young brother who was only 8 years old at the time of his murder.

His surviving sister also works to prevent his parole, something which is perfectly understandable. She doesn't want him to get out because she would then be living in fear of him coming back to finish what he tried to do before. He shot her two times and almost killed her.

Put yourself in her shoes. Would you want him to be paroled?
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he was denied parole a couple of years ago because he showed no sign of remorse or empathy. He hasn't even tried to contact his sister who he shot and left to die.-snowpixie



I believe he sent her a letter which didn't leave much of a positive impression on her.

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not sure about using the word prima donna
more like a garden variety sociopath.



The same thing. I like the term prima donna better because it is more descriptive of the personalities of these types of violent criminals. Also, sociopath implies some sort of mental disorder when the problem just seems to be a lack of positive character traits combined with stupidity.
   
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I've never understood why sociopath seem to always come from a strong family backgrounds.



Precisely because strong families can pamper and overindulge sons and allow them to get away with bad behavior until it becomes second nature to them. Often they allow it more in younger boys because it is more tolerable then. They may even consider it a matter of "boys will be boys." Then when the kid reaches adolescence and discipline and control become more important they find it increasingly difficult to manage the kid. He's already been effectively conditioned to be an ass.

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thank goodness he's low-functioning and didn't have the skills necessary to manipulate under the radar or figure out what the parole board was looking for otherwise he would of probably gotten paroled.



Maybe but his sister has been working to keep him locked up.
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I can think of a list far longer of psychos that come from dysfunctional families of sexual/physical abuse, torture, prostitution and drug addicted parents. There are some that come from functional families as well, parenting skills aren't always to blame.
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I can think of a list far longer of psychos that come from dysfunctional families of sexual/physical abuse, torture, prostitution and drug addicted parents. There are some that come from functional families as well, parenting skills aren't always to blame.



I doubt that you actually could provide such a list. Most of the worst violent criminals apparently didn't develop in families where they were abused, at least when they were young. They may have witnessed other family members being abused like their mother or sister but the abuse directed at them is generally minimal until they have reached adolescence and usually then as well.

Factors other than abuse like sibling rivalry and being conditioned to be a self-absorbed, self-centered ass are much more significant in generating violent criminals. Couple that with a culture that promotes violence which is full of "entertainment" depicting violent men running around killing people and the result is a significant population of violent, mostly male criminals.

The nickname of the violent prima donna in this horrific family tragedy was "Rambo." He loved the Rambo movies and the character of Rambo. I've never seen any of those films nor care to.
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