re: #505 Obdicut

I actually am friends with a guy who, when 19, murdered two people. He served his time for it. He’s very different from who he was then. Kind of Morgan Freedman at the end of Shawshank Redemption.

It’s a hard moment in my job when it dawns on you that it often isn’t overall character that separates murderers from the rest of us. It’s often just one bad snap decision. One moment of blinding anger. That’s all it takes. It’s a very sobering thing to realize that the guy across the table from you isn’t really significantly different from yourself.