I've felt this myself - said to myself and others a number of times, "I kind of feel bad for him" ... "it was really his older brother that was the psycho villa

I've felt this myself - said to myself and others a number of times, "I kind of feel bad for him" ... "it was really his older brother that was the psycho villain." I would contribute that in addition to superficial qualities which may have swayed my judgment more than I've been aware, the mostly-unchanged narrative since the day of his capture has been that his older brother was the real sociopath/nutjob... that they both had poor family support and appear to have been vulnerably "alone" in the US... that Dzhokhar would have looked up to and depended on his brother, and that in a way Dzhokhar may not be an arch-villain so much as a treacherously loyal younger brother duped into acting as a sociopath/nutjob. Presumably, we'll hear words from Dzhokhar himself in the future and come to second-guess our current judgments, but until then, his silence does himself a favor. That all said... I do wonder how much my story above is really the majority of the thought process I went through, or whether it's just a shallow justification for a superficial judgment.