I have no idea what you’re droning on about.
This isn’t a debate about college admissions, taxes, or racism. We’re talking about a grown man paying a child’s mother for sex with her child. There’s no “herd mentality,” virtue signaling, shunning, or cancelling involved in my choosing to say that this man is disgusting, his actions are vile, and he deserves to go away for a long time.
You, however, are starting to sound like a pedophilia apologist who is so “enlightened” because you’ve learned to “think slow” as to not rush to judge a man who very clearly went out of his way to have sex with a non-consenting child.
If not being okay with overt child sex-trafficking and pedophilia means that I’m spineless, then so be it. You don’t have to worry about GETA vs. spinal for my laminectomy.
As a principle, nothing is truly "clear", not even in a court of law (but that's the best we have), and definitely not in the press.
Again, this might be the contrarian devil's advocate in me, who grew up in a totalitarian regime, but as a principle, entrapment bothers me. I don't trust the State, especially since prosecutors tend to build (political) careers on cases like this. Since the average citizen commits 3 felonies a day, according to some, without even knowing it, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's much easier to entrap somebody than we would think. Also, this guy was a successful vice-chair of research.
You're promptly labeling me as a pedophilia apologist, just because I am playing devil's advocate. I remember that there was an ancient country where, if all members of a jury would declare a person guilty, the verdict would be not guilty and the accused would be allowed to go free. Whenever one tends to agree with everybody else, one should slow down and doubt oneself for a moment.
It also bothers me how some people are fast to spit on the same spot they were kissing just yesterday. Also as a principle. That's the spineless part I was commenting upon.
Now if it turns out that this guy is a habitual sex offender, who has hurt others before, I'll feel much better that he was entrapped and caught, before he could do more harm.
This thread is another proof why social media is so prone to misunderstanding and misjudgment, and simply not worth it. You don't know me, you don't see my facial expressions, you don't hear the tone of my voice, but you're pretty fast at jumping to conclusions about me.
I agree that it was uninspired and unwise of me to bring up this kind of discussion on this particular thread. It's best to reserve it to trusted friends and to the courts.
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