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Originally Posted by Christien
I don't think you sound glib or impertinent, I think you sound like someone who got dragged, perhaps unwittingly, into a discussion they really didn't feel like having. Which I can understand - it's happened to me many times before. However you did rise to the task and offer evidence, which I then challenged, which, IMO, is a valid response on my part.
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You pretty well nailed it, Christien. It took me perhaps 30 seconds to machine-gun off those links, which was done purely in an effort to get Rick to quit harping about it, and to get back on track with the main topic of this thread.
So, since we are beating dead horses today, I will restate just how thoroughly disappointed I am in several of the respondents on this thread. They jumped right in, with virtually no information whatsoever concerning the circumstances of this particular case, and were ready to crucify both Byron and his friend.
A few of us subsequently chimed in and opined that maybe, just maybe, we should have a bit more information before jumping to conclusions. It was mentioned that maybe, just maybe, Byron was upset about being the one who would have to be the bearer of such bad news, and therefore might have been venting to us just a bit. And maybe, just maybe, because the guy is a friend of Byron's he deserved the benefit of the doubt, at least until we had the whole story. No one was letting him off the hook, mind you - we just weren't ready to trip the gallows just yet.
Those simple suggestions, those appeals to slow down just a bit until we had more information were quite clearly deemed unreasonable by those who were already crying for his head. Why? Because they would have to admit that their dislike of Byron had colored their reactions. They would have to admit that they had, just possibly, reached their conclusions prematurely, without enough information to have done so. That would be, of course, unthinkable for this lot.
So the distraction and obfuscation started. Picking the fly shyte out of the pepper on meaningless secondary points, and dragging the conversation up one unrelated blind alley after another. All to take the limelight off of their stunning lack of compassion, and their shameful eagerness to convict based on no more information than it was Byron's friend.