Nevermind Christmas, so much for intellect overcoming sheer emotions.
I agree 100% with the below message. It is actually a little scary
that people of this group, whom I would venture to say is well
educated and rational would so quickly skip over rational thought and
jump to a witch hunt of sorts without knowing all the details.
Everyone makes mistakes, and maybe it is naive of me to give the
seller the benefit of the doubt, innocent before proven guilty.
Maybe it was an honest mistake, and he is out of town for a week, so
cannot reply to any messages. Who knows. Sure, he may be a really
bad bad man like you all hope, but lets find that out for a fact
before going after him.
>
>You folks disappoint me.
>
>Before anyone goes slamming anyone else, may I advise that we carefully
>consider the circumstance. None of us, without seeing the machine, can
>make any sort of assessment as to the facts of the case. I mean no
>insult to the poster of the "problem", but none of the rest of us have a
>right (moral or legal) to harass another human over this issue -- and
>doing so is but quite illegal. The facts may be real different than what
>we assume we "know".
>
>You don't like spam, you don't like insults, insinuations, character
>assassination, or bad behavior and you wouldn't like being on the
>receiving end of a bunch of crap generated inappropriately from our
>little family here or anywhere else. Nor would resulting to schoolyard
>bully behavior "fix" anything. That nasty leftist document called the
>Constitution may not mean anything to the leaders of this land or a lot
>of folks who think it gets in the way of a good time, but a really tiny
>minority of people like me still appreciate what far wiser men wrote a
>couple hundred years ago -- along with the concept of innocent until
>PROVEN otherewise.
>
>Nazis used this pressure tactic -- let's try to be one half-step above
>that mentality, o.k.? It's not our place to attack, only to counsel, and
>only on the basis of the very few pieces of information we now know.
>Being a Duo user here means being supportive, not facist -- please.
>
>Paul Vail
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