• thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Dunno why you’re getting so many downvotes… Even if someone disagrees, it’s a pretty reasonable thing to say.

    Plus IMO it is kind of a non sequitur to say “if only the schools were better,” as though his motivations could have been satisfied with better homework assignments, lol.

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        1 year ago

        fwiw I agree with you in that for the author to include this in their article is pretty weird. At some point it transformed from reporting into an op-ed.

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            1 year ago

            Indeed. Make of this what you will (anecdotal) but I can say with some certainty that I did some shady things in my younger years that could not be attributed to any parental or societal shortcomings.