There is nothing wrong with hope based on emotion, after all this is the fate of a small child.
For some though the ‘hope’ was always obviously pragmatic and was just as pragmatically abandoned, with no thought for the child, when convenient.
I have always been more interested in The Rule of Law and only horrified by the desire of some people to convict The McCanns without a scrap of Proof.
I shall apply this to the latest Suspect.
There was never anything that I could do for Madeleine except to hope in passing. If she is dead then she has been for a very long time and no longer suffering.
I don't think that I am a Pragmatist, although there have been times when I hoped that I was. But that is the key. HOPE. I hope in all things. And always have.
This is almost certainly an accident of birth and one for which I am grateful. But you can't apply One Rule for some and not for others. So therefor the current hypocrisy is leaving me bemused.
I shall do my best to Moderate fairly, presuming it even matters. And I don't actually care what any of you think of me anymore anyway.
We will have no Libel about this man. Or any in depth discussions about what he might have done to Madeleine.