Well first I don't think the rightness or wrongness should be determined by a vote of either those in attendance or those on HN. If you asked kids if they like

Well first I don't think the rightness or wrongness should be determined by a vote of either those in attendance or those on HN. If you asked kids if they like to take 3 less classes in high school they'd probably say 'sure sounds good to me'. People will make all sorts of decisions for the wrong reason. Of course they might say taking Epstein's money was wrong after all it has no impact on them personally. Now if they were a college student and Epstein was paying for scholarships and they viewed that as a personal benefit to them they might be ok with it and look the other way. This is the way people are. As far as taking money from a 'convicted sex offender' (the 'accused' makes zero difference and should) he did his crime and he served his time. He went through the criminal justice system. He should be given a 2nd chance. It's unclear to me why people are willing to give all sorts of criminal offenders 2nd chances but not for sex crimes. And make no mistake there are plenty of people who have committed crimes who have impacted far more people that nobody seems to care about that much after the fact and will allow a 2nd chance.