I would add that a few weeks in, on paypal's advice, I cancelled my order and asked for a refund and ceased comms with Mark. I'm still not convinced the paypal account I paid was actually someone else.
But MrD and S5, there are indeed recidivist thieves and tricksters all over.
But their behaviour is as default and natural to them as making good our obligations and trying to be nice is to you and I. They lack conscience and empathy, and feel scorn and smell opportunity around nice people. They genuinely struggle to be any different, to whit if a criminal charge and record doesn't "fill in the blanks" for them, what will? So I try to feel as much compassion for him as I do for the idiot in me that didn't do my proper due dilligence. And for the other victims here.
But MrD and S5, there are indeed recidivist thieves and tricksters all over.
But their behaviour is as default and natural to them as making good our obligations and trying to be nice is to you and I. They lack conscience and empathy, and feel scorn and smell opportunity around nice people. They genuinely struggle to be any different, to whit if a criminal charge and record doesn't "fill in the blanks" for them, what will? So I try to feel as much compassion for him as I do for the idiot in me that didn't do my proper due dilligence. And for the other victims here.