Why Snape is more culpable for having been loved?

[nitalynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 171467

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kvapost" <kvapost at ...> wrote:
>
> Hi all
> I don't get JKR's statement that "someone had loved Snape and that fact 
> made him more culpable than Riddle, who was never loved. "
> What does having been loved have to do with one's culpability?
>

Nita stops lurking for a moment to reply:

I suppose she meant that Snape is not a sociopath, and thus he's more
responsible for his choices. He knows that there are better things in
life than hatred and revenge, unlike Tom, who's been out for himself
and himself only for his entire life and has never related to others
in a normal way. IOW, people like Voldemort should be given compulsory
psychiatric treatment, while most of his Death Eaters should go to jail.

Oh, and it also means that practically everyone is more culpable than
Riddle, although not everyone has done so many bad things ;)

Nita