Comment by ThrowAway1922A
3 years ago
> it is not an excuse.
Things can be a reason without being an excuse.
Sure I'm not in jail and on the surface I have my act together, but my entire life has been fucked up by what are now called "ACEs" and it's a miracle I'm as stable as I am.
I'm not going to let people off the hook, but I am able to sympathize...especially knowing the wrong person or event at the wrong time would have quickly sent me down the same path.
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> Stop whining, be happy about what you have.
I'm not whining, but I do think you should try to understand why people end up the way they do because it's almost never as simple as them being a bad person from the get go.
Attitudes like yours aren't helpful and we could make society a far safer place if we could identify problems earlier in people's lives and intervene.