Dear XenopusTex:

It is my understanding, starting with your previous thread and your posts here and elsewhere that you indeed suffered a miserable childhood, and you still suffer from injuries done to you, for one by your grandfather whose last words to you were that you were worthless.

Your view of people throughout your writings is that people are worthless, not worthy of empathy or respect, not your empathy and not your respect.

For you, XenopusTex, we are all like those defendants you mention in your posts: lazy, dishonest, unreliable, sleazy (etc. etc.) pieces of ^%*(.

I don’t think any one of us humans has a chance to make a meaningful, empathetic, respectful connection with you, not online and not in your day to day life.

Seems to me that part of you thinks that it is you who is the exception, that you are after all The One and only human who is worthy because you work so hard, being busy-busy-busy. Your motivation, your fun, your peace of mind is in choosing a target and shooting- literally doing so with your collection of guns and in hunting, and otherwise aiming at criminal defendants and sending them to prison.

anita