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I don't want to talk about my own experience in detail, but I just got to say paranoia is a disease that eats your mind from the inside. If you've never experienced it I envy you.

>Effective criminals are sociopaths who don’t experience fear the same way as most people.

Strong disagree. The effective ones still feel it, they're just confident they can win in the end. The paranoia makes you put way more thought and effort into it. The ones that don't feel the fear are the ones that will be lazy about op-sec and get caught.

Also being reckless and just barely escaping is itself an addicting feeling. Like going to Vegas but the stakes are for real and the club is more exclusive.



> Strong disagree.

Same. I have sat next to kilo-level cocaine dealers and seen them pray in the car while waiting to re-up. I never met any drug dealer or even killers that even pretended to be unafraid about what they're doing.


Would love to hear more about your experience.


Nice try FBI.




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