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I think I've broken my brother...
He's two and half year younger than me. Whilst we were growing up I always used to correct him on stuff and put him down. He always attempted to compete at the same level and say he was cleverer or better at x activity, which irritated me, so I'd make a point of putting him down verbally. Obviously, he was always smaller and although I was never really that aggressive to him a 12 year old doesn't really take on their 15 year old brother.
Recently he's got really into guns, planes and fast cars (wants to join the marines). He's become pretty racist (his current text message alert is an out of context Team America soundclip "durka durka, mohammed jihad"). His every conversation consists of uninformed statements (often sweeping generalisations) which are normally wrong. He's spent the last couple of years body-building, takes tonnes of protien suppliments and steroids. He threatens physical force in any situation where he doesn't get his own way and basically is an utter cunt.
So my question is - am I (or my younger self) to blame to some extent for always putting him down and belittling him when he was
8 - 15?