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We've evolved in the mean time, and we evaluate current events based on our current standards, not what happened thousands of years ago or what would happen in

• breck 7y ago
  > Taking advantage of someone that can't defend themselves is the very definition of vile. I agree with this, and perhaps I don't know the full details of what he did. But a common pattern I see in life (and something that I've come face to face with in a few terrifying moments in the physical world) is that people go into mob mentality and don't think enough about things, and switch to "out for blood" mode. From what I read, he had relationships with teenage eastern European girls who were desperate for money. So the mob is out for blood and wants to go after him. But few people think about how to really prevent future Epsteins, and protect future children, and that would require thinking deeply about why were these girls in such dire straits? What can we do to improve equity in this world and remove poverty so people everywhere aren't vulnerable to such coercion? That to me is the more interesting, important, and moral problem to solve.