My bold above. The problem is not people trying to "defend what he has done". No single person has posted defending any of his actions. For me, the problem with the discussion of mental illness is that the only source we have for the existence of his alleged mental illness is Chip.
Ok. Not "defend what he has done", but make excuses for and try to mitigate what he has done and rebuke and turn down the level of criticism thrown his way.
Nobody tried to 'turn down' anything.
All I (or anyone else who was willing to be patient and reasonable) wanted was to make sure that we were proceeding on the straight and narrow and acting on facts and not emotions.
I shudder at the thought of having a jury decide my future based on the way this thread has taken it's turns.
And judging by the PMs I'm getting I'm not the only one.
Yes, Chip looks very guilty. Yes some of you were right. No, the way we got there was not very cool.
You can't even bring yourself to say he is guilty now.