Ben3000,
That's the problem. Facts cannot be disputed. They are always objective whereas opinions are subjective. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their facts. Facts cannot be possessed or owned by any one person; they are freely available to anyone who chooses to see them. They can, in fact, be shared by all. Facts do not lend themselves to be held up and disproven, or disputed, when compared to a theory. The theory has to fit the facts, it is never the other way around. It would be a waste of collective energy and disrespectful of the intelligence held by too many people here to embark on a pathway to prove an opinion wrong. Once one has chosen to posses it (opinion); I, nor can anyone else, convince them to set it down. That is a personal choice.
The words you use in your requests (be an adult, have openess, avoid biased opinions) are very reasonable, but it seems like the expectation for a foum to deliver to you a changed mind are not consistent with those very mature words. Several people have responded to you, in varyng degrees of helpfulness, but only those that appear to agree with you seem to resonate. If you want to have an adult conversation, which unfortunately does invovle discourse, then recognize the truth for what it is: a fact. To ask anyone to convince you of the facts is asking the impossible. Either you see them, or you choose to not. I mean no disrespect and I hope we can all agree to disagree and move in a consistent step forward so as to grant CM and her family the dignity they all deserve.
