From: theirony2013@gmail.com   
      
   On 2025-12-17 13:58, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 12/17/25 3:01 PM, Mike wrote:   
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   >> Well, I feel sorry for him, because he might not get   
   >> much drugs in jail. I wonder if he thought about that.   
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   > I gave your previous remarks some thought since last night,   
   > and I suspect that you may be right.   
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   > I would *Definitely* say that "Go ahead, let them have the   
   > drugs" should NOT be the first course of action. Nor the   
   > second. But this dude was in rehab since he was 15. I think   
   > it was safe to say even 10 years later that he was never   
   > ever going to be forced to clean up. If he could have had a   
   > legal way to do it, dad should have just put a small condo   
   > in the inner city in a trust fund for the guy, set up another   
   > trust fund with a weekly dispersal and let him decide when   
   > he wanted to clean up.   
   >   
   > Sociopaths are made. And his 15+ years of lying and manipulating   
   > had become fixed. Forcing him was likely invoking his defenses,   
   > not his best judgement.   
      
   I don't find he looks that bad.   
   Many addicts look like skeletons.   
   I still wonder what is addiction is/was.   
   I suppose I could find out of I researched it.   
      
      
      
      
      
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