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Originally Posted by Peaches
It actually shows that Joe's wife, lawyer and partners are the only ones who can protect him from himself. He was the one who wanted this fight. Ant had the common sense to make it NOT a street fight but instead have some rules. Joe was still game until it seems everyone around him had to show him he had nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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Perhaps that's true. Perhaps Joe had an epiphany. Perhaps he will do the same thing again in a month, day, year, whenever. I don't know and honestly I hope Joe has seen the light. I have seem some pretty amazing and dramatic changes in people in the business over my 8ish years in it. And then I have seen people who claim to make changes but fall right back into old patterns. Their actions always speak for themselves, and there are always reprecussions. Personally I just hate to see the whole thing raised to the next level AGAIN over what.. proving a point? You know as well as I do Peaches that these situations have a way of biting ALL involved parties in the ass. I just hate to think it happening in this one.
Besides, it's like punishing a child twice for the same crime. We all know the history, and anybody who doesn't has obviously been living in a cardboard box with their head in the sand the last few years. however, that being said, isn't it better to let people's actions/words speak for themselves, and perhaps give them an opportunity to develop as a person? Anyone who says a leopard CAN'T change it's spots apparently don't realize the strength and power of the human mind and willpower. All I do know is that everyone is tired of hearing about it, and there comes a point in time when it's the time to move on. Hell, that time was what, two years ago?