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Originally Posted by Slam254
I'm one of the suckers who expressed sympathy towards him here for his addiction. We PM'd, then spoke on the phone. He never asked me for a dime and we tried to go to a GA meeting together but he got cold feet.
He was genuinely devastated for what had become of his life. He was articulate, thoughtful, and sad. And he was brutally honest about how bad off he was.
If you argue "it's not an addiction!", maybe you're right ... I'm not an expert, just a recovering drug addict alcoholic trying to reach out to a fellow addict.
Call me an idiot, but talking to Mike felt like the right thing to do. I'd do it again. And if that makes me a chump, then so be it.
You're not a chump for wanting to help Mike. Those who wanted to help Borovetz are fine. It is those that are/were loudly defending him, justifying what he did and arguing that it isn't a crime, or that it is victimless who are scummy. Or someone like Alan "Chainsaw" Kessler, who not only enables him, he takes money from him that he knows in one form or another is the fruit of scamming and stealing, who were the real bottom-dwellers of the last thread.