Who hurt Joshua?

He also killed the animals at the school.

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He did it himself, his final scheme to prevent his father from sending him to a boarding school.

That was not the reason, he did it because he was a sociopath and wanted to destroy his parents.

And it worked. I was actually glad his plans worked out in the end. I know he likely killed his grandma, pet hamster, and probably the dog, but he was very sick and had a lot of pain within and I don't think sending him away to a boarding school just to get rid of him was the solution.

It’s not ideal, but the problem is that there is no cure for sociopathy, and Joshua had already destroyed Brad’s family (killed the dog and his mother, sent his wife away, and was hurting Lily), so he was not in a position to do more than remove the source of harm, one way or another.

It might have been better to simply have him referred to long-term observation at a hospital, but like most sociopaths, Joshua was good at covering and imitating to throw off suspicion enough to avoid seeing a professional who knows what signs to look for (the regular doctor probably would assume it’s unlikely and waive things off, attributing them to other factors like the mother’s postpartum depression).

Brad was probably just hoping that either Joshua would be better at a boarding school, or else that the school would notice problems and refer him to a hospital and the school’s opinion given more credence than his own.




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