What respect are you talking about? If you want to call disagreeing with someone as showing a lack of respect, go ahead. You mention strong feeling about HKS. I am not the only one who has no respect and no warm feeling for him. And it is based purely on what he has said and done. I had never heard of him until after Daniel's death.
If you don't want to call HKS a psychopath, there is nothing wrong with that. Some have referred to him as a sociopath, and you do not need a special degree to do it. The criteria for that is a list of characteristics exhibited by a person.
Morning Jane- good post
“”””If you don’t want to call HKS...”””
As I see it we have three choices:
HK$ is the unlucky acquaintance of two young people accidentally dying in his presence.
Or
HK$ is an illiterate, stupid, ignorant, careless idiot who had no clue about the effect of taking copious drugs in lethal combination and could not, or did not read & comprehend the medical cautions on the pharmacy instruction sheets attached to every drug prescribed in his name.
Or
HK$ is the most careful, clever and diabolical murderer in the annals of crime.
I was talking in general terms, for the most part, Jane. Not too long ago, a poster ( don’t recall who) said that people who don’t see Howard as a psychopath or evil (paraphrasing) are either naive or not blessed with much intelligence. I didn’t respond to that, but it really bothered me. I don’t like seeing posts like that, as there’s usually no good reason to criticize other posters for their opinions and thoughts.
It’s a little different if a poster expresses negative opinions about a person or actions involved in the case being discussed, because that’s what the thread is about and each is entitled to state their opinions without fear of being maligned in one way or another. I know some folk’s passions get inflamed and that’s human nature, but I truly enjoy reasoned debate and lively discussion when posters treat each other with respect regardless of their differences. Most of the time this thread IS that way, and I do realize all internet message boards have flaming of others now and then. It’s the nature of the beast, I suppose:)