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People have tried over and over to help him, he can’t be helped. I know we like to blame parents but sometimes a bad egg is a bad egg. I don’t think any set of parents could have turned Lucas into a normal, productive member of society.
Yep.
The loop he finds himself in is that he doesn't think he needs help.
You have to be able to acknowledge first that you're in a situation or have a problem that you're unable to handle/fix on your own, and once you've done that, you have to be able to acknowledge and admit that you need (as opposed to want) help before any sort of assistance has any hope of sticking and helping you get your shit together.
He can't even admit he has a problem to begin with, so all the help in the world is going to do exactly fuck all.
The unfortunate catch .22 of a lot of mental illness and/or of addiction of any sort is that it convinces you that you don't have a problem and that it's everyone else that's just trying ruin your life; in that regard, Lucas is like a lot of people, homeless or otherwise, who get trapped where they are because there's not an inexpensive or easy method to force them into treatment.
Even if there were, it still loops back to the person in question both being able to admit there's an issue they can't solve AND that they need help (usually medical) to solve it. With Lucas, the clearest bit of how forced intervention or help doesn't help is that he has been forced into it before and even there, he might be a little more docile, slower, and fatter but he still has the same obsessions he has when he's unmedicated and off leash.
Forcing him into the nuthouse (which has been done a few times over the years) or even into housing where he'd be on lockdown and supervised 24/7 doesn't do him any good because he's never going to get to the point where he can admit that he has enough problems mental health wise that he needs and will be willing to accept help.
He's the human equivalent of a money pit because of that.
Did his parents fuck up? Probably, nobody's parents are perfect, but Lucas clearly had some level of brain damage (if his mom's high fever story is true) and, if not that, clearly had some mental health issues that started manifesting at a very young age that were missed by his parents or doctors or that his parents chose to ignore because they didn't want the stigma of it. Even if they hadn't there's still a good chance it wouldn't have done any good. He's been defective since he was a kid and not every defective headmeat can be made "normal" or even propped up enough that it'll be anything remotely approaching a functional human being.
You can't help someone who doesn't want help, and Lucas doesn't want help.
Also, pedophiles are straight up human defects and just sort of need to be done away with. There's no fixing a pedo, the best you can do is muzzle it and keep it chained up and hope it never gets near a child.