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> Should we shame and refuse association with people who have already been tried and convicted and served their punishment? 1) His "punishment" was an illegall
by dls2016 7y ago
> Should we shame and refuse association with people who have already been tried and convicted and served their punishment?
1) His "punishment" was an illegally arranged joke.
2) There's a vast chasm between shaming someone convicted of a crime and Epstein's welcomed return to polite society. He should've been working a wage-slave job like the rest of us.
- natalyarostova 7y agoSo to be clear, I agree. It was a miscarriage of justice. My specific question is by what metric should we decide to ruin the career of a person who worked with him? Should we reasonably expect all persons to notice when justice isn't served due to corruption, and then ruin their career as a result?
- jessaustin 7y agoHas anyone's career been ruined by this association? I don't think e.g. Trump or Clinton have suffered a bit...
- dls2016 7y agoIt's a moral metric, of course. But this case is so egregious I don't even know how to answer your question. > Should we reasonably expect all persons to notice when justice isn't served due to corruption, and then ruin their career as a result? For a well-documented monster? YES! Don't worry there are thousands of scientists ready to take the place of people like Pinker and the other "fallen heroes".