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Post by Terrapin Station on Nov 10, 2017 15:45:53 GMT
That attitude I think is problematic though. There's such a wide variety of stuff that we're talking about. Why don't people care what the details are, and why do they seem to categorically be morally and perhaps legally opposed, so (close-to-)unanimously, to all of it regardless of the details? It seems like an aversion to critical and independent thought to me. Well in some cases people have denied the allegations, in others people have immediately publicly apologized and 'entered treatment' or whatever. So obviously some of the stories are legit. So when I say they deserve what's coming to them, the guilty are who I'm talking about. How many are guilty is anyone's guess, and that number could go in either direction. But yeah, as I said earlier, there's real witch hunt potential here because now anyone can say anything about anyone and there's a good chance people will believe it. Remember the case of Garrett Wittels, a baseball prospect whose career was put in jeopardy by false rape accusations? ESPN did a great piece on the saga a few years ago. It turns out it never happened and the girl's father set the whole thing up as an extortion attempt. Despite this, years later when Wittels came up to bat in the minors, somebody in the crowd yelled, "Rapist!" Once the story is out there, it's out there. People will believe what they want to believe. Why is no one engaging in critical thinking about just what actions we're considering morally or legally problematic? Someone can accuse someone of sexual harassment or misconduct, and the person they accused might admit that they did what they were accused of, and everyone goes "YEAH-BURN 'EM!" etc., but why are we never saying--"Wait a minute. Should that particular action be considered morally or legally problematic? Why/why not?" (Where we're doing some "hard thinking" about why/why not and not just landing on a bunch of what I call "telemarketing responses"--basically canned replies that no one is thinking about, they're just popular canned replies.) |
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