"You are inventing a lot of elements in my position here. I haven't even said that Ekko is defending a scum buddy. There are many reasons to defend them, I haven't settled on one particular one yet. This is the third time in your short interaction with me where you've tried to claim that I'm saying something I'm not. I'm merely highlighting that there was a hole in his thought process - the conclusions from that can be driven later. Does the detective show his hand the moment all the necessary clues are on the table? No, he does not. I will reuse this analogy for my next point here - finding reasons to townread players. Does the detective assemble evidence to find his fellow detectives? Nay, he assembles evidence to find the culprit. That's my interest right now, my fellow detectives will make themselves clear enough in due course."
I don't think it's reasonable to assume that ekko is whiteknighting a newbie as scum because those ar3 usually the best ones to keep in poe, would you agree?
As for ur point at the end, this might just be a fundamental difference in how we view the game or play the game.
I think it's easier to establish town reads and them use them to deduce the scum, sounds like you think the reverse is true?