i don't mean to use a slippery slope argument but you're essentially arguing subjective judgments of 'doing good' should affect a legal process supposedly objective, which sets an unfortunate precedent towards a kind of superficially determined immunity of the elite. it is muddled somewhat by the fact that his accomplishments were primarily artistic despite being near-universally acclaimed.
well this is a pretty strange context though. this would be worlds different if the man had raped someone YESTERDAY and was in active custody and i was on the jury. i wouldn't just let him go because HEH CHINATOWN because that's really fucking shitty. i'm not going to say that i wouldn't look for loopholes being what he is, but if the man was definitely guilty i would have to vote accordingly.
beyond that, i'm not trying to make some sort of fundamentally all-inclusive statement in regards to how i believe the legal system should work, because you probably aren't going to see situations like this ever again. this is a particularly absurd scenario involving someone who has NOT been a detriment to society for thirty years, who has wronged an individual who no longer has a desire to press charges. like i said in that last post, this issue at its core is really more about the integrity of the united states legal system than putting some dangerous individual behind bars.
i don't want to give the impression that i care THAT much about this either way. polanski is a pretty good filmmaker, but he's not the fucking film messiah or anything. this just seems pretty senseless and arbitrary at this point, given that he hasn't exactly been a RECLUSE these past thirty years. i get the impression that this is more the work of some self-righteous jerk somewhere looking for another notch on his belt than a response to a great social outcry for justice. it doesn't really matter that much anymore, and the invariable shame and ridicule have doubtless been its own prison.
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