It might be more appropriate to wonder why Daniel was so quick to accept that the deaths of his parents were justified because they MIGHT have killed someone while DUI. Did horror at killing someone he THOUGHT was innocent tip him over the line?
Consider:
- Daniel thought his pursuit of Sid was justified and that killing Sid would be acceptable, if not downright heroic, but
- he ended up killing Charlie, someone he thought was innocent (hence violating his own good-guy self-image), and
- Sid got away, so Daniel became a Bad Guy and a failure.
If Bubba ever writes "Full Circle 2: The Cycle Continues", we'll have the families of Daniel's victims chasing him (and so, ad infinitum).
A parable about the futility of vengeance?
Robert M.