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Do you think that bad people know that they are bad?

A guy I know served two years in prison for breaking into a neighbour's flat (and tried to blame the neighbours son when he was caught), he insists that what he did doesn't make him a bad person. His reason for the theft was that he wanted to do it...

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persistentone22 · M

Every side in every argument always thinks that they are the good guy.

Sociopaths do not think laws apply to them, and they frequently find reasons to break laws simply because they feel like it. I might give him a pass if his story was that he was stealing back something that was stolen from him. But to so casually justify a crime by saying "he wanted to do it" crosses lines and he deserves punishment, even though he will never understand why he got it or why it is fair.