Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:Oh, sorry. Was I "off-topic?"
....Since some people do it and don't get caught, we should exonerate those who do get caught and convicted? Wonderful logic......
What the %$#! are you on about?
Find where I said you were off topic, or that "off topic" was the issue.
Find where I said anything about exonerating anybody.
You can't because, as any idiot with a passing knowledge of reading English prose could tell, I said no such things.
What I object to is your attempt to inflict upon everyone else your view of the proper response to Polanski's art. I took considerable pains to point out that you are entitled both to make and to advocate that response. If you try to cram it down my throat as the only possible morally acceptable position, plan on getting it spat right back in your face.
Polanski's inexcusable behavior isn't the only example of heinous in this thread. (Oh, and by the way, the former 13-year-old in question seems to take a somewhat more forgiving stance about the offense in question:
http://www.vachss.com/mission/roman_polanski.html "Samantha Geimer, who lives in Hawaii with her husband and three sons, went public in March to say she forgave Polanski for drugging her and raping her when she was a starstruck kid. She told London's Mail on Sunday that he should be pardoned. ") Twisting someone's words to deflect attention from an insupportable moral absolutism is heinous. Accusing someone who disagrees with you of being a child molester himself is heinous. According to your logic, none of us should ever forgive you for those crimes of Talibanistic mendaciousness and slander, right?
