Despite police assurances that the Whitechapel Monster has struck since November 1888, almost every murder in London’s East End is still hailed as another appearance of the fiend.

So seriously does this affect police work that Frances Coles’ murder site was personally inspected by the Metropolitan Assistant Commissioner (Crimes) Dr Robert Anderson, CID Chief Constable Meville Macnaghten, Superintendent Arnold, Head of H Division CID.

A preposterous array of top brass for one insignificant crime! And all because the press cry up the case irresponsibly to sell newspapers.

AH

“The reason logic has given us great civilizations is because they were balanced with emotional concerns for the needs of that civilization. However, a good parent, relative or friend will always advice logic over emotion because logic can calmly defer to emotion. But a person possessed by particular emotional drive will always defer to that emotion’s lead.

Emotion is not a dirty word. But I advise my daughters to use their heads when in a relationship with someone they feel they are losing their emotional control to.”.

Originally I spoke assuming the audience were consenting mature experienced adults. I certainly wasn’t advocating taking the plunge for someone inexperienced w human behavior.

This part “Your insistence towards claiming that there is some higher plane reached through an emotional venue than a logical one escapes me” helps me see I should
explain that I wasn’t putting one over the other- only giving credence to the emotional aspect – that I feel gets denigrated and cast as a female trait and a weakness. Of course logic dictates survival and protection is foremost.

And ZL – ” Hmmmm, we could review what exactly is meant by ‘…more caring people…’ also but I won’t go there, it’s just a platitude to me” – I looked up platitude.
A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement, often presented as if it were significant and original. The word derives from plat, the French word for “flat.” Whether any given statement is considered to have meaning is highly subjective, so platitude is often—but not always—used as a pejorative term to describe seemingly profound statements that a certain person views as unoriginal or shallow.

In your speak : jus say’n

/SB