So because my idea of a serious discussion threatens your idea of a serious discussion, it is therefore not a serious discussion? Do you not see how that proves my point on Emotional Reasoning?
I don't blame his wife for defending him, btw. She is only doing what she feels she must, and someone could make the most heinous of errors in their life but someone will still love them.
I also agree that he has the right to defend his innocence, as do you to protest it. I never said otherwise, and no one else has said otherwise. Look through the thread again. What we are saying though is the evidence is insurmountable and can't be ignored.
About ignore. Ignoring what you don't like doesn't make it not there. In a discussion about politics and the political nature of things, it is telling when a person has to ignore an argument they don't like, in order to put forward the one they do. I don't like your argument but it exists, and so I accept that and challenge it reasonably well. I at least ask that you show the maturity to do the same. You after all are the one that put this out there and made it open to discussion. That was not my bidding, it was yours. The mods haven't removed any posts here so for the most part it can't be all that bad.
I'm willing to listen to your points, but bear in mind Emotional Reasoning can only go so far in a discussion without repeating itself. Facts are absolute, and I prefer to work with those.