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| darkanger4u |
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| well what if you had to live like Brennan,what if life only offered you this chance?and come on!After all,he tried to correct his errors |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:35 pm |
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Quote: well what if you had to live like Brennan,what if life only offered you this chance?and come on!After all,he tried to correct his errors
Quote: well what if you had to live like Brennan
Lots of people are dealt a far worse circumstance in life than Brennan, and they turn out to be productive, decent people. You don't live here, so I will tell you that despite the images you see on tv, American society is fairly safe and crime free, and I say that as someone who lives in the middle of a large city, not a gated suburban fortress. The crime statistics for my neighborhood, which is 100 years old, match those of suburbs 20-25 km from city center. I do not hear gunfire, roving bands of gangs do not frequent my street, drug deals are not made in front of my house. The houses are well-kept. I am not afraid of the strangers who walk or jog by (no matter what color they are) because this is not a thug-frequented area. A woman came by Sunday trying to round up her loose dog. I didn't know her, but I offered to help her catch him. People are like that here. I leave gardening tools on my porch because petty theft is not a problem.
This society is filled with constant reminders that crime does not pay. There are all kinds of programs for people to acquire job skills. There is no need to steal cars to survive--and the only people who do are stupid, lazy, or just do not want to work.
That's the reality of the milieu in which Brennan grew up. He chose to be a criminal. No desperate Dickensian forces operated on him.
Quote: ,what if life only offered you this chance?
As I detailed above, he had plenty of chances. He chose not to do the honest thing. He wanted things 'easy' and fast. He didn't want to learn a skill, a trade, or to study.
Brennan made his own problems. You can choose to romanticize him as a hapless victim, but that is like feeling sorry for the two Menendez brothers in a very famous case who wanted sympathy because they were now orphans--orphaned after they murdered their parents.
Brennan is not Robin Hood, a decent man criminalized by an unjust system. Brennan steals for himself, and for no other reason, and as I have detailed above, the system offers every opportunity for people of whatever color to succeed. Again, this society doesn't much resemble what you see on television. White hooded racists exist, in groups of 2s and 3s, and they are hated by 99.99% of white people. Black and white guys in my neighborhood play unscheduled 'pickup' games of basketball in my local part--together. An individual has to choose to be a criminal, because there are so many ways to survive legitimately.
Quote: and come on!After all,he tried to correct his errors
Present your evidence.
When did Brennan make restitution to past victims?
When did he ever apologize for the fear and terror he must have created?
When did Brennan ever say anything such as, "I regret my past"?
When did Brennan ever do work with local groups that try to steer wayward kids back onto the path?
When did Brennan so much admit as he was wrong to steal? Didn't he claim that he only stole from those who 'deserved it'? How did he decide that people deserved to be robbed? Brennan never admitted wrongdoing--he rationalized that his victims were fair game.
When Brennan robbed the bank, he wasn't stealing from an organization. He was stealing from a large group of people. He stole from every individual who had accounts in that bank, since the returns on their investments would be decreased to cover the theft. He stole from just about everybody, because the insurance company paying off the loss would raise premiums for everyone. [When thousands of houses lose their rooftops in a hurricane 1000 km from where I live, I pay for that loss in the form of higher insurance for my home.]
In 301, with Adam gone and presumed dead, did Brennan hang around and stay with his 'team members'? He did not. He collected some easy cash from the pocket of a complete stranger, and then he committed 2 murders. This is emphatically not the behavior of a reformed, changed criminal who regrets his past deeds, and who wants his future to be different from his past. This is just Brennan as usual. |
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