Respectful, that's unreasonable buddy.
Rossi exemplified an immediate, clear and present danger to himself and others on the track confirmed within the moments after we realized he had assaulted a fellow competitor. There is ABSOLUTELY NO reason to allow such a person in that state of mind, capable of anything demonstrated by his actions, to continue circulating. Your argument is, there's a guy who just used a vehicle as a weapon, let's just see how this pans out. No, the only appropriate action was to immediately remove him from the environment where he could cause harm as a safety precaution. There are many examples in life that this has been done, sometimes it's been an overreaction, but the times its been an under-reaction the consequences have been irreparable. It's absurd to think this was a err on the side of-- let's just see what happens moment, a mad man circulating at these speeds that just exhibited a mental breakdown never seen before at this level, and based on an imaginary trigger.
Frankly Gaz, despite it not seeming like it, I'm over the actual incident, because it's just another manifestation that the powerful and influential operate above and outside of established laws and norms! In fact, this is one with trivial and unimportant ramifications. It's after all entertainment masked as a sport. In our real lives there are entities and individuals that get away with similar stuff but with dire consequence, loss of life, possessions, reputations, physical and worse emotional suffering. The particulars of this specific event no long bothers me as much as this, it's the illogical positions of debate that still compel me to argue. I'll read something like this or like what others have said on the topic and I think, wait, that's unreasonable and I pursue the argument for the sake of debate not necessarily because of any affect on the actual event. Fact is all of our logical arguments meant .... all to the eventual outcome as it played out, did it? Rossi won the debate on collective 'wisdom' of popularity. He was applauded the very next race in a described 'lap of honor', that's all we need to know about our side of the debate. So any of us with this unpopular perspective are the losers, as unbelievable as that may be when you consider the facts of the incident. It's futile, this really is the ultimate lesson!
Mdub below summarizes very well what I've thought on the subject minus the endless diatribe. Not necessarily that there's some smoking gun information out there that's been buried, but rather that the powers in place decisively took action in every possible detail in favor of Rossi and their own image at the expense of truth, transparency, safety, and fairness.
If you live in a glass house don't throw rocks.
