The Scottish couple and York, neighbours at the caravan park, were becoming friends and spent the night of January 27 drinking at the Star Hotel in Tumut.
However, towards the end of the night, an argument between York and the pair about creationism versus evolution escalated into a shouting match at the pub.
The couple, both biomedical scientists, had been arguing the case of evolution, while York had taken a more biblical view of history.
"Although this became perhaps a little sharp edged, it did not really amount to anything," Justice Michael Adams said during York's sentencing in the New South Wales Supreme Court today.
"For some reason, however ... the offender's mood changed suddenly and he began to abuse Mr Boa and Ms Brown.
"There was no hint of a physical confrontation and what a happened amounted to little more than a brief verbal contretemps."
Although the altercation had been defused by the time the Scottish tourists left the hotel, it became inflamed again at the caravan park when all three were quite drunk.
According to Ms Brown, York was making dinner when he attacked the couple outside his tent, stabbing Mr Boa with a kitchen knife as the argument escalated.
I hate when people blame alcohol for their stupidity.
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then
blames them for his own mistakes." - Gene Roddenberry
Is this a consequence of blind faith? I think that faith was necessary but not sufficient for this particular incident to have happened. This guy was obviously an unstable human being (beyond his ignorance of evolution). As for alcohol, around half of the stupidity is CNS impairment and the other half is our cultural belief that unleashing the stupidity we normally suppress is the appropriate and acceptable thing to do when drunk.
What the hell. If anything this should be a thread be named " Drinking Ends in Stabing"
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
-Sir Francis Bacon, Of Atheism <---Did I make this my sig? This shits gay as fuck.
Yes, when crazy stupid people drink, it can lead to very bad things. Though, it's not necessary for said bad things to occur. Anyway, as for the title of the thread, Psi is just an instigator.
"Clearly my escape had not been anticipated, or my benevolent master would not have expended such efforts to prevent me from going. And if my departure displeased him, then that was a victory, however small, for me." - Raziel