Re: 5 (6?) killed in crash

D.M. Procida wrote: 
Perhaps there are people who never in their lives done anything as
stupid and potentially self-destructive as stuck a knife in a toaster,
sniffed lighter fluid or glue, mixed electricity and water, climbed into
inflatable dinghy with the wind going in the wrong direction, climbed
into bed with the wrong person...

Of course, those things are really *only* self destructive, they're not going to cause a great deal of harm to others. But no, I've certainly never been as stupid as you seem to think everyone must have been as a teenager.

The only thing I've ever done from the list above is to stick a knife in a toaster, and I made sure I unplugged it first.

Perhaps these same people have also never done anything nasty enough to
be really ashamed of, things that can badly damagae or destroy another
person, like having bullied or blackmailed another child, been part of a
group which systematically excluded someone, took advantage of someone
else's weakness, used someone...

I can think of one occasion, when I was about 13, when I may have unthinkably said something to another child that would probably have counted as bullying (I was usually the victim, not the culprit). I quickly realised what I'd done and never did it again. Otherwise, nope, can't seen anything in that list that I've ever done.


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