Originally posted by Cat_Ballou
As I learn more about the history here, with LS and all the rest, what amazes me the most is to discover so much time, energy and emotion tied up in these sites. There's so much testiness and testosterone running through these firefights, nostrils flaring and hackles rising, and it simply fascinates and astonishes me that so many people care so much.
I'll just mention, one more time, that there is *for some* more to it than macho posturing.
Some of these folks are making (however successful or not) *business* attempts. This can involve the investment of both significant money and time.
The combination of business concerns, illegal activities, and the need to be secretive, puts this for some beyond the realm of the merely emotional. Not that emotion, and heaps of it, isn't involved for them too.
But I've never seen the level of threat raised in the context of commercial PMB's come to pass in the context of non-commercial PMB's.
And when one considers what happened with/to TBD, one can see that such disputes might escalate to a serious degree indeed.