A plea for a little more compassion
Thank you Melody Kemp for giving me the language to comment on “the Bankstown nurses” – “angry fantasies”. Who hasn’t wished (aloud even) the annihilation of the schoolyard or office bully, by the most gruesome means imaginable? Thousands of people daily are unlucky enough to stumble across someone ready to exploit their vulnerabilities down the rabbit hole that is the internet.
Yes, what the nurses said was stupid and repulsive when they fell into the trap of a master manipulator. But what must they have gone through either directly, indirectly or both in their so far short lives to make them susceptible to someone with clever and evil intent? Staff at a Sydney café could also have said objectively unacceptable things but they were lucky to meet newspaper provocateurs who were fortunately totally inept. There but for the grace of God …
There has been no suggestion that the nurses’ care of patients has ever been anything other than exemplary. I wish we lived in a country that was more inclined to compassion than knee-jerk reactions. Who knows, it might might be one of us whose vulnerabilities are penetrated tomorrow without us ever seeing it coming.
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