UK police guilty of flawed tunnel vision in hunt for Maddie McCann

[Alfie]

Yeah don't sympathise with people who are screaming with emotional pain, slag 'em off instead, that will help! 

[Alice Purjorick]

Why do you believe that sympathy equates with pity or that anyone who offers their sympathy believes they know "how you must be suffering". My experience is that people will feel very inadequate when expressing comfort/sympathy because they do realise that unless they have shared the same loss/tragedy then words are very inadequate but that is all they have to offer,

The word compassion has been bandied around by various posters. Look up it's definition.

[Alice Purjorick]

Yeah don't sympathise with people who are screaming with emotional pain, slag 'em off instead, that will help! 

When have I slagged off the McCanns ?

[Robittybob1]

Would I?
What good do you think my pity/sympathy will be to someone, who inside is screaming with emotional pain?
God preserve us from the "I know how you must be suffering, but time is a good healer" brigade.

How do you feel about "the truth will come out" brigade?

[Alice Purjorick]

Looks like I was right the first time
Time is a good healer though some pains will never be anywhere near totally healed

1 You were wrong.
2 Trite old bollox in my experience.

[Alice Purjorick]

How do you feel about "the truth will come out" brigade?

The truth does not always come out so not only do I not belong to that brigade but believe the notion to be fundamentally flawed.

[Alfie]

It's kind of depressing to know that there are people on this forum for whom compassion and sympathy are seen as  worthless qualities yet posts slagging off the parents of a missing child attract no such criticism, and in some cases are even "liked" by such people.   

[Alice Purjorick]

It's kind of depressing to know that there are people on this forum for whom compassion and sympathy are seen as  worthless qualities yet posts slagging off the parents of a missing child attract no such criticism, and in some cases are even "liked" by such people.   

Jump in the river then.
Otherwise live in the imperfect world with us lesser mortals, to the best of your ability, and learn not to try to change things you cannot.
It's only a game and you will not get out of it alive.

[Mr Gray]

1 You were wrong.
2 Trite old bollox in my experience.

Developing compassion is far from trite

[Mr Gray]

Jump in the river then.
Otherwise live in the imperfect world with us lesser mortals, to the best of your ability, and learn not to try to change things you cannot.
It's only a game and you will not get out of it alive.

But you can change things
You can change yourself
And then the imperfect world is not quite as bad

[G-Unit]

It's quite ironic that those who support Amarals right to say Maddie died in the apartment and her parents staged an abduction want to prevent posters saying Maddie was abducted

I support Amaral's right to recount how the Portuguese investigation developed up to October 2007 and his personal views on it. I also support the McCann's right to promote their abduction theory. I don't support anyone who promotes these theories as facts, because the facts aren't known. If a poster thinks Madeleine was abducted they can say so, as long as they make it clear it's their opinion and not a proven fact.

[Mr Gray]

I support Amaral's right to recount how the Portuguese investigation developed up to October 2007 and his personal views on it. I also support the McCann's right to promote their abduction theory. I don't support anyone who promotes these theories as facts, because the facts aren't known. If a poster thinks Madeleine was abducted they can say so, as long as they make it clear it's their opinion and not a proven fact.

Amaral presents his theory as fact
Amaral claims his theory is supported by evidence
It isnt

[G-Unit]

Amaral presents his theory as fact
Amaral claims his theory is supported by evidence
It isnt

The McCanns and those who support them present the abduction theory as fact.
They claim their theory is supported by evidence.
It isn't.

[Mr Gray]

The McCanns and those who support them present the abduction theory as fact.
They claim their theory is supported by evidence.
It isn't.

I claim that the abduction is a near certainty
The evidence to support that is on my signature line and it's all true
Amarals evidence is false
And you have not addressed the fact that he states his theory as fact

[G-Unit]

I claim that the abduction is a near certainty
The evidence to support that is on my signature line and it's all true
Amarals evidence is false
And you have not addressed the fact that he states his theory as fact

If you read back, I have already made my position clear;

I don't support anyone who promotes these theories as facts, because the facts aren't known.