If you are born poor and of an immigrant family, and with very, very few opportunities to learn or do anything different, your options of what to do with your life are very limited. Sociopaths, yes. Near-psychopaths, for sure.

I am in no way condoning the crime-pursuing lifestyle or the heinous things that come with criminal activities.

But if you or I were born in the same scenarios, would we really be so different?

Those guys didn't have computers and the Internet to chat on the BB with other people. They were raised by the streets.


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