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Originally Posted by Lexical
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Not quite. Mine was an extrapolation on the mentality of a psychopath given certain constraints. It is also observed often and can be noted by the saying "there is more than one way to skin a cat." Your argument was changing the past of a very specific instance and using the difference between the divined results and the actual results as the basis for your argument. Do you see the difference?
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I didn't change the past of the Monash shooting. It wasn't a mass murder. It was an attempted mass-murder that was stopped because the shooter had to reload. Something he wouldn't have needed to do with assault style weapons.
If you're then saying that the Childers fire was an example of "more than one way to skin a cat", you don't understand the crime or the motivation. The idiot didn't even intend on killing anyone.
Justice Peter Dutney, who sentenced Long at Brisbane's Supreme Court, said it was the worst case of arson in Queensland history.
He said: "I'm happy to concede you had no intent to kill but death was such an inevitability in the circumstances that to light those fires displays callousness and cruelty that is hard to imagine."