'Perpetuating the pain of the Collins family' it may be. But what about the pain of the families of those situated in the cabin?
Absolutely, Hempy. Which is why the "get Collins off at all costs" mentality (apart from being incorrect) is also distasteful.
I made the comment about the Collins family's pain in relation to those who keep telling them what they desperately want to hear - ie. that he wasn't at fault at all. This is so patently false that as well as sparking an outcry from people like ourselves, it must cause a degree of internal conflict in the Collins's themselves. Whereas if they were allowed to accept that their husband/father was placed in an unenviable predicament, that things didn't go his way but also he made some errors of judgment himself; perhaps they too could find acceptance and move on.