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Comment by metalliqaz | Hacker News Reader

Louis Scarcella will not face prosecution. God, that makes me sick.

For better or worse, sometimes to change the system you need to avoid vengeance. This is why many terrible dictators are allowed to live in peace in exile.

I'm surprised he doesn't live in fear of one of his ex-convicts getting out and going full Dexter on him. Perhaps he really believes his made-up lies.

You're probably right that he believes his own lies. The type of people to exclaim "I've never done anything wrong in my entire life" (as Scarcella does in the article) are usually the biggest buyers of their own bullshit.

It takes serious cognitive dissonance to be able to say something like that with a straight face.

> The type of people to exclaim "I've never done anything wrong in my entire life"

If anyone ever said those words to me, I would do my best to never, ever, interact with them. It's prime facia a false statement, and anyone who can say it with conviction (assuming they are an adult) must necessarily be a liar.

I've done plenty of things wrong, I've broken the law countless times (which, really is nothing special, literally everyone has, but I've done it knowingly and willfully), I've inadvertently burned bridges (figuratively, of course) and offended people deeply that I never meant to.

No one is perfect, anyone who says (and appears to believe) that they are is a menace to society.

prosecution != vengeance

A prosecution is justice, not vengeance.

That's not an assertion that can be backed (in the US at least) by the facts as a universally true statement.

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