To all of you; sorry if that quote about being "jaded" offended. Puppy, you're right, I do believe everyone here is being genuine in their advice and that advice is based on their experience. That said, and I may be digging a deeper hole here, I would not want to get all my information and advice about the death penalty from a room full of people who recently had someone close to them murdered. I'm fairly sure they would give a certain kind of advice.
John ("America's Most Wanted") Walsh tragically lost his own son to kidnapping and murder. That no doubt clouded his judgment, especially early on. He's also, since, studied and been involved in hundreds (thousands?) of other abduction and crime cases. I'd like to think he offers a unique perspective on them, for those who find themselves in those unfortunate circumstances, with fresh "wounds."
Interesting analogy. I wonder if you would want to weigh more heavily the advice of the cops who'd walked that beat hundreds of times before, who were pointing out some of the crap they'd seen, over and over and over and over.
I know we all like to thing we honestly aren't biased by our own sitch, but I really do think I base most of my advice on the books I've read, and on the hundreds of affairs I've studied over the past few years, rather than my own situation.
