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For a little cultural orientation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter While redemption is on

For a little cultural orientation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter While redemption is one of the themes in the book sadly the internet has not quite developed that level of sophistication so we are stuck with denouncement/punishment.

magashna 7y ago
These days you might as well become a hermit or kill yourself because there is no penance great enough to be accepted by some people.
- kgwxd 7y ago
  You are forgetting who is President of the United States. The third choice is to go all-in.
  - Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
    I support a theory that cases such as this are one of the main reason Trump got elected - some voters were just fed up. I also think that he'll get elected again, cause Dems are concentrating on impeachment instead of trying to understand & connect with his deplorable voters.
    - jessaustin 7y ago
      By summer 2017, it was clear that RussiaRussiaRussia was all they had in store for the next several years. At that point, I knew Trump would be reelected. This is a fairly awful person who has actually done a number of impeachable things, many of them after he took office. Yet, they chose to dwell on something that was obviously false to the average voter. Why would they do that? I think the answer to that is related to the fact that Biden is the current pick. If in 2016 we had made a (short) list of candidates likely to lose to Trump, Biden and HRC would have vied closely for the top choice.
kstenerud 7y ago
The redemption in the book is only for Dimmesdale, as his last dying act. For Hester, the recipient of the scarlet letter, there is no respite. The point of the Scarlet Letter is that its victims are forever oppressed by the masses, and those near to the victim are made guilty by association. It doesn't matter what the crime is; forever punishments are unjust, and prone to abuse.

magashna 7y ago

These days you might as well become a hermit or kill yourself because there is no penance great enough to be accepted by some people.

kgwxd 7y ago
You are forgetting who is President of the United States. The third choice is to go all-in.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
  I support a theory that cases such as this are one of the main reason Trump got elected - some voters were just fed up. I also think that he'll get elected again, cause Dems are concentrating on impeachment instead of trying to understand & connect with his deplorable voters.
  - jessaustin 7y ago
    By summer 2017, it was clear that RussiaRussiaRussia was all they had in store for the next several years. At that point, I knew Trump would be reelected. This is a fairly awful person who has actually done a number of impeachable things, many of them after he took office. Yet, they chose to dwell on something that was obviously false to the average voter. Why would they do that? I think the answer to that is related to the fact that Biden is the current pick. If in 2016 we had made a (short) list of candidates likely to lose to Trump, Biden and HRC would have vied closely for the top choice.

kstenerud 7y ago

The redemption in the book is only for Dimmesdale, as his last dying act. For Hester, the recipient of the scarlet letter, there is no respite. The point of the Scarlet Letter is that its victims are forever oppressed by the masses, and those near to the victim are made guilty by association. It doesn't matter what the crime is; forever punishments are unjust, and prone to abuse.