RE: Cosby Sentence
September 25, 2018 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2018 at 2:36 pm by robvalue.)
Jail, with his vulnerability taken into account.
There a couple of things that come to mind for discussion:
1) How does someone live their whole life knowing they've done something like this? Is he sorry, I wonder? Does he consider he did anything wrong?
2) It is interesting to consider how by jailing someone for what they did so long ago, that we're punishing essentially a different person. That's always the case, to some degree; but over large periods of time it becomes more substantial. This isn't some sort of excuse to not punish him, I just find it a weird idea. It's an unavoidable consequence of how things are.
There a couple of things that come to mind for discussion:
1) How does someone live their whole life knowing they've done something like this? Is he sorry, I wonder? Does he consider he did anything wrong?
2) It is interesting to consider how by jailing someone for what they did so long ago, that we're punishing essentially a different person. That's always the case, to some degree; but over large periods of time it becomes more substantial. This isn't some sort of excuse to not punish him, I just find it a weird idea. It's an unavoidable consequence of how things are.
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