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I find the recent trend about total inability to separate a persons' personal life from his professional disturbing. So for me the answer to the question should

I find the recent trend about total inability to separate a persons' personal life from his professional disturbing. So for me the answer to the question should he be removed from his position is far from obvious yes. If you feel mad about him getting away easy, ask for better training of cops to respect a person rights (a fourth amendment violation is far from technicality), suspension of the plea deals for DA or fix the system. By imposing your own extrajudical punishments you are undermining the court system as a whole. They payment for a person's crime should end with the sentence. Even for a despicable deed like that.

lmg643 13y ago
There is a clear line drawn around criminal behavior and employment. It's considered disqualifying for most jobs to be convicted of a crime - and if he is convicted, he should be removed. Should a CEO should be held to a lower standard than a janitor? Please. It's not enough for the average pay of the guy on top to be many multiples of the average, we now allow him to beat the sh*t out of people as well? The Eich situation was quite different. His political donation was a feeble expression of his right of free speech. No laws broken. He just dared to be out of step with elite opinion. Perhaps pg said it best: "What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. [...] Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed." http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
- kjs3 13y ago
  > It's considered disqualifying for most jobs to be convicted of a crime This is not even remotely true.
- nraynaud 13y ago
  he's got a misdemeanor.
aggie 13y ago
>By imposing your own extrajudical punishments you are undermining the court system as a whole. Hardly. The justice system does not have a monopoly on punishment. There are punishments reserved for the justice system, including suspending freedom or even ending life. Because of the harshness of these punishments, there are safeguards to abuse, such as the 4th amendment. But there are other punishments for social deviants, not subject to the same safeguards. This guy is not protected from people calling him an abusive piece of shit on Twitter, nor should he be protected from being fired if his reputation is doing serious harm to his company.

lmg643 13y ago

There is a clear line drawn around criminal behavior and employment. It's considered disqualifying for most jobs to be convicted of a crime - and if he is convicted, he should be removed. Should a CEO should be held to a lower standard than a janitor? Please. It's not enough for the average pay of the guy on top to be many multiples of the average, we now allow him to beat the sh*t out of people as well? The Eich situation was quite different. His political donation was a feeble expression of his right of free speech. No laws broken. He just dared to be out of step with elite opinion. Perhaps pg said it best: "What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. [...] Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed." http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

kjs3 13y ago
> It's considered disqualifying for most jobs to be convicted of a crime This is not even remotely true.
nraynaud 13y ago
he's got a misdemeanor.

aggie 13y ago

>By imposing your own extrajudical punishments you are undermining the court system as a whole. Hardly. The justice system does not have a monopoly on punishment. There are punishments reserved for the justice system, including suspending freedom or even ending life. Because of the harshness of these punishments, there are safeguards to abuse, such as the 4th amendment. But there are other punishments for social deviants, not subject to the same safeguards. This guy is not protected from people calling him an abusive piece of shit on Twitter, nor should he be protected from being fired if his reputation is doing serious harm to his company.