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Originally Posted by Chris T
Cold, callous and calculating?...
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Cold...what they did that night was hardly warm & affectionate.
Callous...as I said above, what if one of the children had woken up, frightened and crying for their Mum or Dad, who were't there to comfort them? They had no regard for the feelings of their children, so yes...callous.
Calculating...they didn't leave their children alone by accident. They weighed up the pro's & con's and made a decision.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
...Tell me, does it give you a warm glow inside as you hand down righteous judgement on someone you don't know and have never met?...
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It certainly does not give me a warm glow, quite the opposite. I am commenting on the facts provided to us. Facts provided by the McCann's themselves. I don't see how knowing them personally, or meeting them will change the way I feel about what they did
that night (and previous nights). I have formed my opinion of them by their own actions & words. As I have said previously, a bit of humility, or a recognition of some kind of responsibility from the McCann's would go a long way to change my opinion of them. It wasn't just what they did on the night, but their subsequent, sometimes flippant, comments that has helped form my opinion.
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...Does it make you feel good about yourself?...
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No. Not at all.
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...Does it help you to think how much better you are than they are because you would never do anything so stupid?...
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No. It doesn't help me in any way. We are all individuals. Some aspects of our lives we perform better or worse than others. We all make mistakes, but...I can say this with 100% certainty, I would not have left those children alone in that apartment as the McCann's did. Never, in a million years. I honestly don't know how they could have done it. I really don't...and I consider it to be more than just stupidity.