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People do things they're not proud of in desperate situations. Also, everyone was 18-21 once.

Speaking as someone who (barely) survived an unintentional acetyl-fentanyl overdose that hospitalized me with rhabdo and almost killed my then-fiance -- him dealing this stuff is not the end of the world.

I think a lot of people on HN don't know what it's like to be someone below the poverty line who is also entangled with the law. If you're looking for hell in a first-world country, that's about as close as you can get in the USA.

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> People do things they're not proud of in desperate situations.

Having to get an office temp job for minimum wage at 24 isn't ideal but it's a stretch to call it "desperate" and somehow justifying pushing opiates.

> what it's like to be someone below the poverty line

Which he wouldn't have been with the job options he had available at the time.

He was 24.

People do things they're not proud of in desperate situations

See that's the thing. Did you read one word in the post about him being remorseful or apologetic to the people he might've killed by selling them U-47700, a drug that's essentially unstudied in humans? I didn't.

The thing about writing public apologies is that there's no way to differentiate them from crocodile tears. You can't tell whether the person posting it genuinely means those things or is saying them because they know other people will read them.

Obviously, anyone who causes damage to another human being, if they aren't a sociopath, feels remorse.

Of the entire post, perhaps 3 sentences talk about the specifics of crimes committed. Every day that one wakes up inside of a prison/jail, is a reminder of exactly what choices you made to get there.

Can you blame him then, for wanting to write a post that isn't focused on the wrongs he did, and rather his hope for his future?

I have to imagine that if someone in that position talks enough about their past they get a little tired of having to apologize all over again to every new person they talk to.

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