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I also think that we should have mercy for people who’ve made mistakes. People who’ve willingly done dumb things, especially when they were young. I feel this

I also think that we should have mercy for people who’ve made mistakes. People who’ve willingly done dumb things, especially when they were young. I feel this way because I did dumb things when I was young, and I’m sure you did too dear reader, and at least for me, I was lucky that those dumb things didn’t end in catastrophe. It’s like it’s human nature to forget the dumb things you did if you were lucky enough to escape the consequences, and look down on those who weren’t so lucky.

ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
Amen. Source: Did really dumb things, when I was younger.
tmoertel 1mo ago
> I also think that we should have mercy for people who’ve made mistakes. Yes. When people make mistakes, they sometimes fall into holes that are hard to climb out of. It is in society’s interest to place ladders in these holes so that these unfortunate people can climb out and become productive members of society. Instead, we have self-interested parties who have figured out how to extract rents from keeping people trapped in holes. Some of these parties are preventing ladders from being built. Others are destroying existing ladders. Others still are even inventing deeper, stickier holes—crypto scams, ubiquitous gambling, addictive gas-station drugs, dopamine-hit apps—to trap even greater numbers of their fellow human beings. When a society allows the suffering of others to become a profitable business model, good things rarely follow.