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Ymorist [56]
3 years ago
5

Explain the meaning of “The moral barriers that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career were so

tenuous as to be merely non-existent”
English
1 answer:
Kobotan [32]3 years ago
8 0
"The moral barriers" as in ethics and morals, "that I had supposed to exist between me and the dangers of a criminal career" as in morals that the character put into place about how dangerous being a criminal could be "were so tenuous as to be merely non-existent" didn't matter to the character. 
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