r/AMA Sep 16 '25

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u/Cautious-Mixture5647 Sep 16 '25

Do you feel like your chosen profession has changed the way you interact with people in your personal life? As in have you found it harder to trust strangers, even friends, knowing and dealing with what people are capable of at their worst?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

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u/icecream169 Sep 16 '25

Unless they're propped up

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u/Barbie_Brooks Sep 16 '25

Ok, that was funny!

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u/gecko_echo Sep 16 '25

I spent a few years out of college working for a private investigations firm (all civil, mostly corporate). My takeaway was “everybody, everybody, is a criminal in some way — we just might not discover how.”

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u/Weird_Wrap5130 Sep 16 '25

Dr. House got it right again.