One of my cousins is apparently a lot like me. I met him as a kid once. I stay far away from my mother’s side of the family so I don’t care to find some deep connection with him or anything. But he signed up for the marines shortly after I joined the army. We were briefly in Iraq together but never met. We both had alcohol problems, though mine was just health issues, while his was getting him in trouble with the law. Both got over it (not totally sober, but much healthier and safer and then pivoted “far” left as my mother says, and we both have gotten into smoking meats and gardening.

True, but by law that isn’t illegal. It’s the intent that made what he did illegal.