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I was drunk, he got in my face, I had knife in hand, I dropped it, he went for it, i got it first and stabbed him in shoulder...
Meh, I don't really blame you, but brandishing a knife was excessive. You shouldn't really have done that when your were drunk, but I'm not going to be a condescending ass to you, you did what you did, and it's done, so me ranting about violence is pointless. In any case, while I'm not a violent person in general, if someone crossed the line and I had the legal advantage I would thrash them to pieces without sympathy.
Anyway, they are embarrased because by committing a violent crime you've just been pushed into a box with the gays, transgenders, criminals, goths (oddly), foreigners, hippies and any other minority group that people see as sub-human. By stabbing that guy you've been ostracised, and hence you've lost your benefits.
It's "embarrasing" for anyone to be seen with someone from any of these "groups", and they don't want to be guilty by association. If I was best friends with a guys for ten years, and then told him that I'm a gay, muslim, down-syndrome transman there's not a very big chance that he'd still talk to me (btw, I didn't pick that example to insinuate there is something wrong with gay, muslim, down-syndrome transmen, in fact some of my best friends are gay, muslim, down-syndrome transmen).
TBH the whole stigmatisation of felons is a little odd to me, I understand the necessity of the justice system and prisons, but it's not nessesary to look down on a criminal just because his acts are evil, or even he is an entirely evil person himself. We of all people should know that people are essentially hard-wired, and a criminal was born with criminal tendencies, just as an aspie was born different to others. Nurture helps, but at the end of the day some people just want to rob cars and stab people in the shoulder we should try understand that people aren't random, they are programmed, and their consciousness is often along for the ride.
I'm assuming your posting because you want to get this off your chest a little, so tell us, how did you feel after you stabbed him?
Edit: I know this is random, but nonetheless I think it's important that I say it:
ZEGH8578, you remind me of this stark-raving mad canadian I used to know. That was a compliment, you just don't know it yet
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