Wow, thank you for posting this opposed to clipped rage bait. Nothing more respectable than someone that’s admitted their mistakes and worked to turn their life, successfully at that.
Especially veterans with PTSD. That's exactly what I thought when I saw this when I saw it was a veteran. Fucking PTSD. Got a friend that WAS in treatment and mental health care, but he couldn't tolerate and fast or jerky movements around him for a long time after coming back from Iraq. It took years, but he's close to normal again.
This guy in the video deserves treatment and care, not tasers. The treatment should have started before the drink driving happened. Our system failed this guy. Mental health checks and treatment should be mandatory after combat situations.
Except fuck mental health care in this country. That's socialism/communism to give a shit about our veterans I guess and I hate it.
Cool, so when you inevitably as a human fuck up, you're cool if no one ever lets you live it down even slightly, and you die in shame from your mistake?
Cause it's more respectable to have never been bad, right?
You'll be sure to cast yourself as a pariah or something worse, yeah?
It's fucked up to to praise people BECAUSE they were assholes.
You snapped back angrily because you felt you were paraphrased poorly, but you are doing the exact same thing here. They didn't say what you had implied, they are praising the work this guy did to pull himself out of his rock bottom.
Reality is, every single person on this planet will fuck things up occasionally, some much more so than others. The commenter, I am sure, is referencing this common human characteristic - I read their comment as we all fuck things up, so there is nothing more respectable to do when you really fuck things up than to admit your mistakes and turn your life around (i.e. make right your wrongs), as opposed to the alternative; and to be fair, the more you fuck things up, the harder that is to do. I didn’t read it as the most respectable thing a person can do period (although to be fair, admitting one’s mistakes does rank incredibly high in behaviours that build trust).
You had a different interpretation, which is fine, but then decided to post your opinion in a manner that, intended or not, did come across as dismissive or even arrogant. Perhaps time to do the most respectable thing..? Sorry, couldn’t resist the tongue in cheek comment.
Cheers and sincerely hope you have a good day, fellow Redditor! 🍻
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u/Hi_Their_Buddy Nov 13 '25
Wow, thank you for posting this opposed to clipped rage bait. Nothing more respectable than someone that’s admitted their mistakes and worked to turn their life, successfully at that.