"The man loves with passion other thing; His work. Maybe she did something that was seen as a menace against the other love of his life, his submarine. Maybe she poke around and tried to sneak/photograph/open/discover some parts of the engine with the purpose to earn some bucks selling the submarine secrets when returning to China. I'm speculating of course, but unless he was drunk or drugged (unprobable while driving a sub), or both where flirting for months by e-mail and he feels cheated, there should be a solid reason for she being 'punished' with death. This is not a random act IMAO."[1]
> Please notice that you are wrong. I never said 'must have been', I said 'may have been' or 'could have been'.
You can hide behind weasel words all you want but the fact of the matter is that you were positing all kinds of ridiculous explanations for a situation where a simple one would suffice. That's about as clear an example of conspiracy nuttiness as I've seen since the Reiser trial referenced elsewhere in this thread.
What 'may have been' or 'could have been' still has to be remotely plausible to be considered and it really wasn't.
So if you feel that your use of the word 'maybe' gives you license to throw up all kinds of flak feel free, in the meantime realize that it does nothing to establish credibility and in fact probably achieves the opposite.
A proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, can be asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis)
Speculation:
The contemplation or consideration of some subject. Conjectural consideration of a matter; conjecture or surmise
It was me in fact. Please notice that you are wrong. I never said 'must have been', I said 'may have been' or 'could have been'. There is a planetary distance among both statements.