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After taking a strong legal prescribed painkiller - I can understand why people do illegal drugs, the initial high is awesome!

Shame it'll wear off after a few days and I'll be left with just the pain killing element - which is great too tbh!!

Father Brendan Smyth, Larry Murphy etc. Is there a way to get post modern about these?

Think whats it's like without the pain….

its a complicated topic, but i do realise, some people are just currently not rehabilitative, but maybe that can change in the future, but thankfully the amount of individuals is small, but we have learned a lot from these individuals, and we still do, but they are bloody dangerous, and some can probably never be truly reintroduced into society

environmental stressors can also cause detrimental outcomes, my own disorders have been linked to many serious crimes, that dont mean im gonna go shoot up some place anytime soon though…

I agree with this. I personally find it very hard to define evil in a person but evil acts I dont..and tbh it's not been a good way of thinking for me... because I'm always looking for reasons or excuses for people and I'm too easy on people.

I have seen though throughout life in early childhood years where (now I don't know) there was seemingly no neglect or abuse with this child I fact she seemed quite spoilt but she was particularly mean to animals and bit of a bully..I remember that childhood friend getting extreme joy out of rolling around bees in a jar and I told her to stop. Then again, I was ok with catching the bees but I let them go so I justify that I'm good because I let them go?…but there were differences in me and her from very early on that I don't know I put down to ignorance...I remember having a debate with the same girl and now we were only 10 and she said that all people who had aids should be put on an island and left to die and I remember saying to her no you can't do that to people...then again I grew up with very liberal open minded and accepting parents for the time so I probably wasn't being told the things she was at home! I actually find because I had a nice homelife in my childhood but was surrounded by and experienced and saw a lot of abuse within my community that it's left me very confused as an adult because when I left the safety of my home I still had to deal with things. Such is life but particularly for me the contrast in a good few situations was particularly a shock and big confusion for me.

Oh ye I get that too. Like I'm not sure how I feel about personality disorders but there is no doubt certain patterns of behaviour are linked together to form the idea of say a narcissist.

The thing I always think about is when they say 'the child suffered a trauma that made them feel neglected, scared etc' ....there can be serious traumas yes but 'trauma' in some cases could be that the mother went out of sight for a five mins or something minute like that which scared the infant and set a pattern of thinking. That's why I'm kind of thinking it's more nature sometimes...what compelled one child to perceive an innocuous event so drastically different to another?

Well, I live with someone who sometimes reads case files for criminals as part of their job. Let me assure you, mam going out of sight for 5 minutes doesn't make the highlights reel of traumatic events. The stuff is genuinely horrific.

No I'm talking about...say someone who's diagnosed with a personality disorder like narcissism and there doesn't seem to be any history of neglect or abuse...in those cases when they are talking about 'trauma'..it was what the infant perceived as trauma…so at some significant point or several significant instances where everything alligns (fear, loss, age etc) something insignificant triggers the child for example to feel abandoned...and this sets part of their perceptions going forward...

It could have happened on another day to the same child or a different child but for whatever reason that did not trigger them…

But when all things aligned it triggered them to perceive it as trauma and set the tone going forward. Not sure if I'm explaining it right.

Well you don't have to be so rude.

I was talking about how I often make excuses for people and then..when you read about personality disorders like narcissistic or aspd, or even reading about attachment theory's, they often say 'something terrible happened in the childhood which caused x y z' but i don't always think it's something terrible that happened.

We were talking about the existence of evil...and it can't exist in the same way complete goodness can't exist...but it can come close.

Like my example of the mother leaving the child for five mins and that triggering the child. The mother could not know that would trigger the child. She is human and it's human nature not to be perfect. The childs reaction is not controllable by the child but a mixture of biological and circumstancial factors that aligned to trigger the child into eventually becoming.....evil by nature 😁😁

If it's not going to be a big issue what's the problem with taking a test then?

The amount of media over-coverage and molly coddling of exam students every year now.

This morning it was some guidance councillor more or less saying don't forget your pens and pencils and brain going into the exam hall. Does any other country have wall to wall coverage of bloody exams?

Sure the poor auld craturs are over-mammied now more than ever.

I wouldn't mind but the exams themselves aren't as difficult or stressful as they were when I sat them 18 years ago (christ). Far more pathways into education if you don't get the points you initially wanted, and fecking even a few bonus points now for just sitting the higher grade. Had I known then what I know now, that they weren't the be-all and end-all, despite having it drummed into me from fifth year, I probably would have performed better than I ultimately did. And me getting my current job, which is well paid and enjoyable most of the time, didn't hinge whatsoever on LC results 18 years ago.

And the exam coverage will be supplanted in a few weeks by music festival season, again something I don't understand the fascination with in this country.