If you see heavy bruising on someone, you should take their word for it.
Why? It's not as if it's impossible to bruise yourself or suffer beatings from a bully, etc.
After all, why would she tell someone she just met?
Some people are manipulative and will do a lot for attention, or to hurt someone else for whatever reason.
My old next door neighbor (She's been my next door neighbor since roughly three weeks ago) had been hit and verbally abused by her drunken father. Guess what? This caused her to form a posse of other kids that came from a broken home, pretended to be my good friends, then tore my best friends and I apart with lies and slander. Then, they made my life hell with physical, mental, and verbal abuse. Not once did I retaliate; rather, I stood up to it and took it all without saying a *dancing* word. I knew they situation was very, very volatile. They did this in public, through the internet, and through my phone. Harassment day after day. They also caused hundreds of dollars in damage to my house.
Honestly this story is comes off as really fantastic and it seems to be a recurring theme with you on these forums and especially in this thread.
My point is, kids from broken homes are very unstable. At least he took actions to prevent not only the mother from hurting them, but also from the girl hurting/killing herself or someone else. You don't know what she might have done to herself/someone else.
A generality; some people move on with their life unaffected. (See: Arma. Saw your post just as I was finishing this up.)
And now you know a tiny bit about my past and why I hide it so much.
I'm not trying to attacking you personally, but you clearly do not hide it that much if you're posting about it on public forums on the internet.
And Ripper, they keep posting sarcastic/rude replies. I'm not trolling; I'm simply standing up to this *chocolate cookies*, 'cause quite honestly, it pisses me off to see this from two Devs , and it shouldn't be this way in the first place. Shhh.
Quite honestly, Fire and Gheist can post mean/hurtful/sarcastic comments and get away with it, but we can't? My, oh, my.
I'm sorry you feel as if Gheist is being rude or saying "hurtful" things to you, but that's not what I've been seeing at all. Often his only goal is to make people
think, as was his intention with his first post in this thread. You also have to keep in mind that English is not his first language and, while he's very good at it (better than 82% of Americans), there are probably times where things come off more abrasive than intended.
Gheist, I did.
Stop underestimating me. I think I should let you know that I read your post 5 times and it didn't make any *dancing* sense to me. All jumbled up with no perceivable direction at all.
Perhaps that is not a problem with his post, because I understood it.
I would, but they're probably classified (Confidential patient files). I'm not even allowed to be in the same room as my Mom when she's doing her patient notes. I'm sure, though, she could take a second look at them and give me a percentage, but that won't be for a while; she's very swamped 'cause some people in her department are having HER do the discharges, when the Discharge-people-guys are sitting back getting paid for doing nothing. =P But yes, I'll try my best to get them!
Statistics from patient files from wherever she's an RN do no represent the entire country, so any percent she can derive from those files is inconsequential. Additionally, I'm confident that she would not go through all of those files to produce a percentage so that you can try and win an argument on the internet. I would also be willing to bet a substantial amount of money that it's NOWHERE near 82%.
My mother's experience and access to files.
Don't go there again or I swear I will make you regret it. Just a warning. Now, please, get back on topic.
Do not threaten people on this forum because you're extremely defensive for whatever reason (a lot). The point he presented was a legitimate one.
Something that you (and everyone else) should take away from this thread is that jumping to a conclusion when you know
nothing of any of the numerous variables that would significantly affect the given situation is absolutely dumb. While what he has done seems noble at a cursory glance, you should not blindly applaud him. You can speculate using personal experience as a basis, but the fact of the matter is that you are not a part of this situation and should discuss it accordingly. Before you tell me that "it's a private matter", that is wrong—you don't invite people in to your problems on the internet in a public place and call it private. The names of people and places can be changed so that there's no issue with telling us the full story. It would've been nice had he done that, but clearly he did not, so again—discuss it accordingly.
Don't get me wrong though, I think that you doing
something is a good thing, but I don't know enough about the situation to give an informed opinion and I believe that people with uninformed opinions should refrain from giving them. Just my thoughts on the matter though and while I have no desire to get wrapped up in this thread since it seems like all the people who incite drama seem to gravitate towards it, and I want no part in that, it's getting a tad absurd.
