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points by smt88 11 hours ago | 0 comments
“Temporarily unable to go to Northern Ireland” doesn’t justify abandoning your child for the entire rest of his life.

There’s no way to spin it so that Bushby isn’t an absentee father and a selfish person.

[–] TFNA 11 hours ago
In so many of these stories, once the parent and child have publicly reconciled as Bushby and his son have, the child is very annoyed by total strangers on social media continuing to harp on abandonment or injustice; it feels like an intrusion into their personal life that hbn or smt88 knows nothing about. So, you might want to ask whether your intervention here is actually sought.
[–] anonreplier 10 hours ago
Reflects a lot better on the son than his selfish old man; he's fortunate he's seemingly turned out so well.
[–] adaml_623 10 hours ago
Well maybe public judgement of a father abandoning their child will stop it from happening to a child in the future.
[–] BeetleB 10 hours ago
I'm sorry, but: Post-hoc justification.
[–] saghm 10 hours ago
This entire discussion is post hoc, unless you're assuming that everyone who is commenting here happened to also have criticized him publicly in the past. There's no statute of limitations for people voicing their opinion on something they just learned about from a while back.
[–] BeetleB 10 hours ago
> There’s no way to spin it so that Bushby isn’t an absentee father and a selfish person.

I never understood why people are so willing to advertise their lack of imagination.

[–] Apocryphon 10 hours ago
Then dazzle the discussion with your creativity.