Hey Johnathan J.
You wrote:
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Neither murder nor drug use necessarily make you a bad person.
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I've known 4 murderers in my life; two of them quite well; two of them just by chance.
Anyway of the two I knew personally, both stabbed people to death. One stabbed his wife in a cocaine rage. Would he have done so if he'd been sober? Shrug. Hard to say; he was pretty crazy but I think the drugs pushed him over the edge. He's doing the "Michigan death sentence" now...life without parole. And you know it's odd. I mean what he did was horrendous and he needed to pay but I can't say he was an unlikeable person. Actually, it was the opposite. He was extremely brave and loyal; his friends adored him. And I'd like to think if he'd been raised by someone else and in a different side of town, he would've been just a regular guy, ya know? I've always believed poverty is half the problem with violence.
The other guy though? He tied an old man to a board and stabbed him to death 30 times. THAT guy is also in a Federal Penitentiary - which is EXACTLY where he needs to be. He had all the priviledges, he was from my cousin's neighborhood which is a nice bedroom community. His family doted on him, yet he was scum through-and-through. Nasty piece of work. You know the kind of person who walks in a room and you can just feel the evil coming off of him? That kind of person.
I dunno. Is it the way people are raised or is it who they are intrinsically that shapes what they'll do?
Somehow I suspect we'll never really know the answer to that.
Wishing you a great day!