plenty of people can do rough stuff without oozing "mom, i'm this way because you left me!/I'd kill this girl if it was legal" like max.

ok, say you've got a 14-year old daughter, in the purgatory between kosher for penis and kosher for pedophiles. you're going away for a month and handed a sig-sauer and max hardcore to babysit ----what do you do? my guess most people would leave their kid alone for a long time by themselves with a list of emergency numbers.