That depends on whether I find the ploy itself amateurish.
A professional's interest is in the truth. Whereas I would expect someone concerned with solving particularly notorious cases to be a person less concerned with the immediate case, but rather fixated on a more distant goal that they're advancing toward. Which begs the question of what that goal might be, and how personally selfish it is.
I'm not so hypocritical as to pretend that I wouldn't or haven't done something similar. I simply had the decency to be ashamed of myself for it.
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A professional's interest is in the truth. Whereas I would expect someone concerned with solving particularly notorious cases to be a person less concerned with the immediate case, but rather fixated on a more distant goal that they're advancing toward. Which begs the question of what that goal might be, and how personally selfish it is.
I'm not so hypocritical as to pretend that I wouldn't or haven't done something similar. I simply had the decency to be ashamed of myself for it.