... your experience has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. It doesn't even correlate, let alone prove cause....

Well, since I started the thread, I think my whole life experience has to do with the topic of it. It doesn't have much to do with your attemtp to HIJACK the thread into a personal attack on me, that's true.... but you did ask what happened in the situation I used as an example about the ways we look at issues, so I indulged you with a little slice of the reality of my experience. Remember, YOU ASKED.

And "prove cause"? I don't have that role, or that interest in the individual situation. A lot of folks are limiting their responses to their feelings about the individual situation they have been hearing about in this thread and in the news. I invite a broader discussion-- if people don't care to have it, of course that's up to them.

~Susan