WIY, I’m not going to argue with Rav Dessler, but I just want to understand something.
If we are going to say that people’s that there may be a chance that people’s bad choices were above their Bahira point, then we can excuse all the molesters, abusers, murderers who themselves were probably abused, people with negative character traits especially traits that that hurt others, in fact -we can excuse any behavour!
So we can all excuse everyones bad behavior. Those who have hurt me and those who have hurt these OTD kids and frum OTD kids, and those who continue to hurt kids. And those who hurt other innocent human beings. No one is responsible for there actions. Most of those who hurt others is because they have had similar things done to them or were born with character traits that push them to hurt others.
In fact we too are potur from any sins like loshen hora and anger that are caused by our genetic makeup as it might simply be IMPOSSIBLE for us to change. Yay, I’m taking a vacation from trying to work on my negative traits, after all there is no way I can change what is part of my genetic makeup. That is above my Behira!
I hardly think this is what Rabbi Dessler had in mind.