Comments on: Second Chances http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/25/second-chances/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Thu, 17 May 2012 04:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lance http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/25/second-chances/comment-page-1/#comment-60707 Lance Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:52:21 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=1684#comment-60707 That is how I feel as well. That is how I feel as well.

]]> By: Billy Hollis http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/10/25/second-chances/comment-page-1/#comment-60705 Billy Hollis Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:47:05 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=1684#comment-60705 I'm getting too cynical as I get older. At first, I thought you guys were too easy on STB. After all, we have not yet heard any expression of remorse other than his willingness to recommitt to his responsibilities as a soldier. But on reconsideration, perhaps that is enough. At least for now. My cynicism about second chances is that most of them are not capitalized upon. Perhaps this one will be; I shouldn't be so cynical I don't believe it's possible. So I wish this young man well in coming to terms with himself. As long as he doesn't pop out in a few years with his book entitled something like "My Life Among the Skull-Wielding American Neanderthals in Iraq". I’m getting too cynical as I get older. At first, I thought you guys were too easy on STB. After all, we have not yet heard any expression of remorse other than his willingness to recommitt to his responsibilities as a soldier.

But on reconsideration, perhaps that is enough. At least for now. My cynicism about second chances is that most of them are not capitalized upon. Perhaps this one will be; I shouldn’t be so cynical I don’t believe it’s possible.

So I wish this young man well in coming to terms with himself. As long as he doesn’t pop out in a few years with his book entitled something like “My Life Among the Skull-Wielding American Neanderthals in Iraq”.

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