It was fucked from the start, J. It's just the worst form of dick-sizing yet conceived on EADD. So regarding that, you win the gold medal.
Have to say reading through it has made me realise why we never got on. Trouble is you haven't got a leg to stand on bar "I was a H addict at 16". Been through FAR worse and ended up getting good grades both at school and at Uni. As Sam said before you pulled out the jailhouse implication, there's no excuse for dumbing yourself down. Smash the cunts in the face if you have to, but Sartre is right when he says that other people are Hell and that your mind is your own prison. Fuck anybody who says otherwise. Credited you as wiser than that.
Btw if you want to bother with a stinging rebuttal do it for the sake of your "internet rep" and whoever happens to glance through it. To close the loop neatly, this thread was fucked from the start, J. I will not be visiting again.
BTW I was born, raised and lived in Granby Street, Liverpool 8, with many a long stop there between my birth (there) and my graduation from Uni that I won't bother delineating for the eyebrow-raisers. Another professor from the Humanities faculty at my Uni came from about 2 streets down from where I was raised. To reiterate, it doesn't matter where the fuck you were born. It's what you do with what you've been given that counts.