Reasonable & Just
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Thank you, I too find this happens all the time in such threads. Far too many seem unable to think about how people actually talk. How stories can change in minute ways each time they are repeated. How people don't always listen or hear properly, and miss things. How we sometimes use the wrong word, or go off on a tangent.
Added to that is the attitude so often encountered that "I wouldn't do that, therefore neither would anybody else" or "I don't believe that is possible, therefore it isn't".
All of this is true. But it's also unwise, and often dangerous, to not take someone at their word, and instead come up with reasons why they might mean the opposite of what they said. Why they might not really think their wife was abducted (not lost) because she had a beer and a bikini, even though they said just that. Twice. Calmly, voluntarily, in front of cameras, and not under those bright police interrogation lights they have in cartoons.
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