[Don Joe]

"HE HELD A FAMILY HOSTAGE! (Yeah, I'm yelling.) This guy shouldn't be a poster boy for any cause, except maybe the National Organization for Women. Any woman would be a fool to stay with this creep."

So in other words, when there is an ongoing rash of postal workers "going postal" -- so many in fact that the term grew legs and became a colloquialism -- it's sheer folly to try to examine why the Postal Service creates that many flipout cases?

[RogerFGay]

So in other words, when there is an ongoing rash of postal workers "going postal" -- so many in fact that the term grew legs and became a colloquialism -- it's sheer folly to try to examine why the Postal Service creates that many flipout cases?

I think what's being said is that once a postal worker goes postal, that justifies the cause. See -- the argument goes -- that creep deserves the treatment he got.

[Home By Dark]

=>"HE HELD A FAMILY HOSTAGE! (Yeah, I'm yelling.) This guy shouldn't be a poster boy for any cause, except maybe the National Organization for Women. Any woman would be a fool to stay with this creep."
So in other words, when there is an ongoing rash of postal workers "going postal" -- so many in fact that the term grew legs and became a colloquialism -- it's sheer folly to try to examine why the Postal Service creates that many flipout cases?

A criminal act is a criminal act is a criminal act. The why of it only explains the failure of character; it does not excuse that failure.