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Originally Posted by Less
What a strange lot we humans are here is a man that made a terrible mistake, one he will regret for the rest of his life, he probably doesn't want sympathy because he will be punishing himself for it.
Yet people such as yourself Katex will display a yellow ribbon displaying that your thoughts are with a poor child that went missing after her parents, (notice the caring nurturing mother is to blame as well!) deliberately left her and her twin siblings alone.
It strikes me as strange that a man that made a mistake (be it as horrible as it is) gets no sympathy and yet two neglectful parents get an audience with the Pope! If I was to offer sympathy anywhere that guy would be a long way further up the queue than those two.  |
I still display the yellow ribbon for the child Less in the hope that she will be found safe and well soon, not the parents, albeit however neglectful we all think the couple were, they didn't just forget about their children (please don't think this is any excuse for them .. it's not!) and understand perfectly what you are saying, but their child is lost indirectly through their neglect, not directly.
Anyway, don't think people's opinions have changed with regard to Madeline's parents, some have lots of sympathy for them as well as the opposite, as feelings for this father, shown on this thread.
I am not saying either that I don't have any sympathy for this father; just an explanation of why he may have forgotten which to me and others, beggars belief. Just feel his mind cannot be in any sort of gear.