Originally Posted by
Triceron
There's different types of evidence, and none which we are privy to yet.
If all the evidence they have ends up being circumstantial, then it would still be up to the courts do decide on its validity, as well as the public eye in deciding how truthful they may be. We do not know what kind of evidence we have. Any assumption beyond that is literally jumping to a conclusion before this has been presented to the courts and to the public. Just because an investigation has been done doesn't really mean anything yet.
While I personally do lean towards siding with the accusers due to the overwhelming amount of anecdotal evidence surrounding this, including examples of this happening *at other companies within the same industry*, I still side with the idea of waiting before making any actual judgement call on it.
Just because *I personally* regard it as being true doesn't mean we should all immediately assume it is truth. We still need to be responsible in regarding all of this as potential hearsay, and be careful with how we word our arguments, regardless of our stance. Consider we have plenty of anecdotal evidence that goes both ways. Morhaime says he failed on his position. Cher blasts Morhaime, but then later says she believes Morhaime after talking directly with him. On the other hand, Lore blasts Morhaime and accuses him of knowing 100% everything. All of this is *circumstantial* evidence, and we can't assume everything being said is true, because often times a lot of that information is privy to certain biases or conflicts of interests depending on whether someone is just saying something because they know, or saying it because they're expressing a deeply-emotionally driven opinion. Does Lore really know that Morhaime knows everything 100%, and should we simply take this as evidence? My thoughts on the matter is no, we should not. Should we believe Cher in saying Morhaime is in the clear because she believes he was trying his best? No, we should not. We need more information to properly gauge the situation.
And I will refrain to comment on any other politics, since that is wholy off topic and not part of this discussion whatsoever.