I'm sorry that you feel like using words like "sanctimonious", but mostly I hope people just stop arguing about "was it this motive or that motive" and did not intend to direct that at one such arguer or another. I meant it for anyone doing such arguing.
To put it another way: If someone had just said "we don't know his motive, it might be something we didn't think of" that could've been constructive. But beyond that, both painting a specific alternative motive, *and* attacking that painting full of sarcasm and appearing to argue in favor of the original suggestion, are both IMO not constructive.
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Date: 2013-05-12 07:51 pm (UTC)To put it another way: If someone had just said "we don't know his motive, it might be something we didn't think of" that could've been constructive. But beyond that, both painting a specific alternative motive, *and* attacking that painting full of sarcasm and appearing to argue in favor of the original suggestion, are both IMO not constructive.