Father's Day, and Madeleine
Happy Father's Day, at least to those in the UK!
We're taking Dad out for lunch.
In other news...
As I suspected might happen, I couldn't put the story about Madeleine down for long. I ended up reading the remaining half last night, until gone midnight.
It continued to be a hard read, and I had tears in my eyes repeatedly as I finished it. In a way I felt like I owed it to the McCanns to finish it, and understand their story. I honestly don't know how they had the strength to recover from some of the situations that occurred, nor how the British public were hoodwinked by the tabloids into believing all sorts of stories.
It reinforces an already concrete belief that tabloids are utter bilge, and even mainstream news needs to be looked upon with a critical eye. It also goes to show how police forces in other countries can be shockingly bad, and both disinterested in actual justice, as well as plain corrupt. It also highlighted the venomous minority that are always out there, albeit versus the kinder silent majority. Worse than the venomous minority of course are those who perpetrate these crimes. What evil vermin they truly are.
Like all missing children around the world, I hope the McCanns find Madeleine, and get closure.
There were a couple of passages about how people judge others that hit home:
"Judging others and expressing those opinions is part of human nature, it seems, but it's astounding how some individuals feels entitled to do so, and with such vitriol, from a position of total ignorance."
"The last few years have been a crash course in the complete spectrum of human nature and one lesson I have learned from it is never, ever to judge. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' responses in any case. To judge in ignorance is conceited, inconsiderate at best."
If only a large section of humanity could also learn these lessons.
We're taking Dad out for lunch.
In other news...
As I suspected might happen, I couldn't put the story about Madeleine down for long. I ended up reading the remaining half last night, until gone midnight.
It continued to be a hard read, and I had tears in my eyes repeatedly as I finished it. In a way I felt like I owed it to the McCanns to finish it, and understand their story. I honestly don't know how they had the strength to recover from some of the situations that occurred, nor how the British public were hoodwinked by the tabloids into believing all sorts of stories.
It reinforces an already concrete belief that tabloids are utter bilge, and even mainstream news needs to be looked upon with a critical eye. It also goes to show how police forces in other countries can be shockingly bad, and both disinterested in actual justice, as well as plain corrupt. It also highlighted the venomous minority that are always out there, albeit versus the kinder silent majority. Worse than the venomous minority of course are those who perpetrate these crimes. What evil vermin they truly are.
Like all missing children around the world, I hope the McCanns find Madeleine, and get closure.
There were a couple of passages about how people judge others that hit home:
"Judging others and expressing those opinions is part of human nature, it seems, but it's astounding how some individuals feels entitled to do so, and with such vitriol, from a position of total ignorance."
"The last few years have been a crash course in the complete spectrum of human nature and one lesson I have learned from it is never, ever to judge. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' responses in any case. To judge in ignorance is conceited, inconsiderate at best."
If only a large section of humanity could also learn these lessons.