Met a few ex terrorists. Northern Ireland is cool.
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Everyone I know has met a killer.
Yeah. There judicial/extrajudicial murders. There is different levels of manslaughter / accidental killings and such. Then there are the different degrees of murder. Even the mislabeling of products hsve brought "manslaughter" charges...
Anyway, yeah, many many people are either directly, or indirectly related/responsible for someone's death.
In a sense, by levels of separation, I am indirectly responsible for a couple different people's death...
Its not something that someone would put blame on me, I mean, I used to party with a lot of people, these people died while "partying"... not while around me, or because of me, but I didnt discourage the "partying" these folks were doing.
many many people are either directly, or indirectly related/responsible for someone’s death.
You want to get philosophical? Every mother and father are both directly responsible for the death of their children - even when that death is natural causes by old age, it wouldn't have happened if they weren't born.
Old guys who killed fiddy men
I definitely have. I'm 43 and people have been randomly coming up to me and telling me their deepest, darkest secrets since I was 12 like I'm some kind of walking confessional booth.
Do you inspire trust this much ?
Apparently 😂 The key is being a mix of non-judgmental and not caring. The silly stuff some people are worried about though when I've literally gotten confessions from multiple murderers always throws me for a loop. Makes me wonder how entities that assist with life reviews during NDEs or after death keep from cracking up. Experience, I suppose.
Also, I never tell on people, and most of the time I forget what they said immediately afterwards because I know they were confessing for their own sake, not mine. I guess that gives me a "safe place" vibe.
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...or someone who killed themselves...
The candy shop guy where I grew up was apparently a Serbian specops deserter of the Yugoslavian war.
So yeah, probs.
In my younger years, I knew many people who killed others.
What about it?
I've known several people in the military, who saw combat and have confirmed kills. Half my family, basically.
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Yes, but I haven't seen him since he killed two people, partially because he's been in prison for the last ~28 years.
Yup, I know someone who was in a car accident and the other driver was killed