I have read Lord of the Flies, and it is something of an own goal to use it in this case. Let's compare some of the characters. Jack Merridew, early on in the piece, says, "Kids' names," said Merridew, "Why should I be Jack; I'm Merridew." Jack Merridew was a GPS boy, who was chapter chorister who could sing C-Sharp and reminded me somewhat of the idiot who Boris Johnson appointed President of the Board of Trade. Jack Merridew believed that the leadership of the island was his by right, but when Ralph scored the most votes, was appointed head of the choir, and they decided to be hunters. Jack Merridew ended up splitting the island population and was a totalitarian bully. When he set the island on fire, and they were finally rescued by a British naval ship, he couldn't take responsibility for making a mess of things.

My father knew a man who was a security guard, who had worked as a prison warder, and he asked if you had to choose between employing a thief or a murderer, who would you choose. Most people would say the thief, but here's the problem, a thief starts out stealing a chocolate bar from a shop and can escalate to stealing cars. Typically, unless a person escalates from petty crime to sexual assault and from there, murder, typically a murderer only murders once. There was an exception in Queensland, Australia, where a man murdered a 5-year-old girl in 1963, and who was released in the 1980s, who then murdered a small girl in Roma, in 1990. The judge, in that case said that if they had the death penalty, and it had been carried out in 1964, the case would not be before the court that day, as the man would have been executed.