Valefor.Sehachan said: »
*rolls eyes*
Hey guys I acknowledge we agree to disagree but lemme reinforce that you are wrong and I am right through my wording.
Hey guys I acknowledge we agree to disagree but lemme reinforce that you are wrong and I am right through my wording.
I'm glad you noticed that, too. He literally can not get over that White House invite, can he?
Ragnarok.Kongming said: »
It's not irrelevant. You just agreed the device looks suspicious. You're at least now agreeing with the kid who "made" it.
The rest is down to the circumstances which I already admit are dubious. Why did he have it set to alarm in English class? Why did he bring a device he thought looked suspicious to school at all? Why is he offering utterly no explanation?
These questions have reasonable answers, and neither of us know what they are. You claim to, why not enlighten me and I can stop being tripped up?
The rest is down to the circumstances which I already admit are dubious. Why did he have it set to alarm in English class? Why did he bring a device he thought looked suspicious to school at all? Why is he offering utterly no explanation?
These questions have reasonable answers, and neither of us know what they are. You claim to, why not enlighten me and I can stop being tripped up?
At no point did I admit that the boy's clock looks suspicious, at least the pictures I've seen of it. At the same time, I did concede that it may look suspicious in the eyes of people who are, shall we say, more susceptible to reacting way over the top to things. I, and several others, have also provided pretty reasonable answers to your questions (other than why was the alarm on, that's a very valid point) but for the most part we've been branded as liberals, etc. Not by you first but that word's been thrown around quite a bit in here and it doesn't even mean anything.
I'm willing to accept that a 14 year old kid was simply interested in sharing something he was proud of making - why? Because if I don't accept that, where do I draw the line that everyone is out to get me? What a horrible life I'd be living if I assumed every instance of anything remotely 'out of the ordinary' had a more sinister motive. The beauty of this particular issue is everyone has plenty of room for interpretation, as you've rightly pointed out. What I disagree with is not that you are wrong, just that I believe your judgement is itself somewhat motivated by something other than the facts in front of you. I'm going only on what you've posted to come to this decision.
I am not one for paranoia nor scapegoating and at this point, it's turned into a witch hunt. People are actively fabricating ways to pin this on the kid, when ultimately there isn't any factual proof he did this on purpose. It's just astonishing that the overwhelming majority are eager for to be a real bomb hoax rather than vying on the side of "Perhaps this is out of context". That's the bottom line here, the context of this event is being ignored. It wasn't an airport, a plane, etc, where dramamongers expect Bin Laden's ghost to be waiting for them. It was a school, he showed his engineering teacher before taking it to English. If there was intent to cause a bomb hoax I just don't see it.
That said, the conspiracy theories surrounding this kid's behaviour are worthy of a Game of Thrones episode. People insult the kid for being dumb because his clock is unoriginal, why don't we credit him for the alleged excellent plot he's created that's climaxed in his arrest for a 'bomb hoax' - again, 'bomb hoax' because it only became that when he was wrongfully arrested.
