> Dear everyone who suggests we throw Calum out of the club. What will this actually achieve?
I'm sitting here thinking that you believe that a rapist should be allowed to roam about unchecked for some reason... I'm also sitting here wondering why on earth you are defending someone whom should be doing it themselves?
> There are two reasons why I will not throw Calum out of the club. The first is that our constitution only allows for this under gross breaches of safety policy.
I believe he has brought your club and uni into utter disrepute. In fact he is giving ALL students a pretty bad name. I was a young person in a club once and mentioned I was going to chop some bolts and climb a route on trad. The club swiftly turned around and said i'd be binned if I did but they wouldn't stop me. The club made a good decision here.
> Secondly, I prefer to think that by climbing with people who do give a f**k about ethics, he might learn something.
From what i've seen this dude don't care what you are teaching him. If you were in fact 'teaching' him he would be posting an apology under his own user-name. Not have a personal spokesperson whom only cares about the image of their club.
> and eventually come round to our way of thinking.
... so we await that apology?
> You do realise 2 of our committee just today have sat down and had a long discussion with him about his actions and why they are unacceptable? This is education not punitive justice here.
There is no apology to date .. so therefore didn't listen to you at all. What next? Ignore it and hope it all goes away?
> But no, you people are just a medieval pitch-fork mob baying for blood.
People caring for what they believe in is actually a good thing imo.
> That's fine but people like you are a disgrace to the climbing community.
What on earth did YOU think the response would be?
> I like to regard climbers both known and unknown to me as reasonable, kind & generous people but every day people.
In fact history has shown them to pretty selfish people.
> thus I have a rather good grasp of logic.
You've missed the boat here me thinks ....
PS: I'm still not 100% sure this isn't a hoax! Those photos could have been anywhere...