[BlueSkyJaunte]

I'm so sick and tired of hearing this excuse for sociopathic behavior.

There's a delinquent here in AZ being held in a secure med ward for intentionally not wearing his face mask when in public. He has antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. Basically, he is a walking, talking biological weapon. He decided his doctors' orders didn't apply to him, so now he is in enforced quarantine. How was this a "mistake"?

This is just one anecdote of many that I could relate. Why do people insist that their criminal behavior is (or was) nothing more than a "mistake"? I can think of one particularly high-profile instance of which I heard recently--an armed carjacking was downplayed as a "mistake". WTF?

Am I just splitting hairs here? Personally I think this trend towards euphemizing inexcusable behavior as a "mistake" is just another example of the continuing downslide of our society into lawlessness.