@ Gene:
Skepticism, skeptic, or skeptical: according the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary the word means, inter alia, the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism characteristic of a skeptic.
As such, while "caution" may connote more "leeway" as you put it; I suspect the use of the word "caution" is less inflammatory or perjorative than "skeptic" or its derivatives. It also, in my view, is more passive. However, when I used the word, "skeptic", I meant the act of "suspend[ing] judgment" and doubting of a system (if, by system, you mean NTM as a whole process of thinking, acting, and doing) up to this point, based upon its past track record. I AM cautiously optimistic that what Larry, et. al., did in GA will be replicated elsewhere, just as I am cautiously optimistic (given the recent acts in GA) that similar investigations into other fields will be conducted in the same thorough manner as GRACE did with Fanda. However, I am skeptical, as in suspending judgment of approbation on the whole, until continued incidents such as what happened in GA are done elsewhere AND NTM decides to utilize GRACE or a similar entity of sterling character and repuation to conduct investigations into sexual abuse that occurred on other fields and reporting such, when corroborated, to the appropriate authorities.
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