GlennCashQC
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- Nov 9, 2016
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First of all , dont speak for others by saying "we". You wouldnt have any idea what the overall public sentiment is. I have however visited polls on a few sites about this, and pre trial, it was one third each of participants that thought "Guilty", "Not Guilty", or "Unsure" . However if you go on social media, the sentiment is 99% guilty. The inference I draw is that those who have a little more intelligence and objectivity, do not waste time joining wild speculative discussions, hence the imbalance of differing views....but we aren't judging him on an isolated incident.
We are judging him on how he behaved immediately after that incident. When he didn't call an ambulance because he said "What happened, had happened - there was nothing an ambulance could do." We are judging him on his lack of his genuine remorse during his interview and we are judging him on having the gall to take money for that interview. We are judging him for saying "You're lucky I haven't chucked you off my balcony, you God damn psycho little bitch" minutes before Wright fell to her death. We are judging him for ignoring the 33 times she said "no" and ignoring her begs to go home.
No one is spinning this. Tostee's actions speak for themselves and his words speak for themselves. I'm allowed to make value judgement of him based on his words and actions. And until he actually starts to show genuine remorse and act like someone has actually died I'm gonna think that Tostee is, as one person put it, a "malignant narcissist". A "walking timebomb". A "psychopath."
If you judge on his post fall behaviour , that is fine, but you are judging on a separate issue to the case being discussed. The case is the death of a woman, not about the unrelated aspects of an involved parties personality. Incidentally the points you claim to judge him on have been explained in Post #872 so in fact you are still not up to speed with this case.
Calling Tostee a psychopath clearly shows you don't even understand what psychopathy is. Nothing indicates he is. You seem unaware that he has in the past been diagnosed with slight austism, and it would explain his detachment and lack of emotion.
As I keep saying to so many people like you, listen to the first 2 hours of the 3 hr recording which you clearly havent and get some context. Its obvious that Tostee was thoughtful and considerate to her until she crossed the line. His behaviour was fine, hers was not.
And why would Tostee need to show remorse then, or even 2 years after the incident? For what? He didn't do anything that contributed to her death, and considering what her psycho actions did to his life, leading to 3 pointless months of imprisonment, if I were in his shoes, I'd have nothing but hatred for this female (insofar as you cant hate a mentally unstable person).
Employ logic and objectivity - listen to the full recording....but you wont will you, because it is more convenient to just join the discussion and vent hate on the basis of selected media snippets. Unfortunately there are people here who have a greater knowledge of this case than that.You can't tell me to change my opinions about the man. I've formed them based on his actions and I will judge him based on his words. I'm not sure what else you expect me to do.
There is one glaring similarity in that the police, the media, and then consequent public sentiment turned against a man and concocted a motive to hold him responsible for the death/s of other people. If Lundy is ever freed early, he will suffer the same fate as Tostee, as no exoneration will change peoples prejudices - he will be guilty forever in the view of the Court of Public Opinion. Ain't it grand?In Lundy's case, there are no straws being clutched - he just could not have done it. Completely different scenarios and I have no idea why the cases have any kind of comparison; they have nothing in common. In the Eric Thomas case, the verdict showed that no crime was committed. Amber & Christine's hacked-up bodies show that murder was committed.
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