Children were exploited, and we're doing this net positive analysis on whether he should face the scorn. I'm not having a go at you - it's just frustrating to see very little happening after so much has been exposed, and I think part of it comes from this mindset - 'oh he's a good guy, this is a mistake/misstep' while people that were exploited as children can't even get their justice.
It's sickening.
I'd rather have both. Hawthorne doesn't get nuked if Elon Musk goes to jail.
> Children were exploited
Abuse. Exploitation. CSAM. We're mushing words.
Child rape. These men raped children. Others not only stayed silent in full knowledge of it, but supported it directly and indirectly. More than that, they arrogantly assumed–and, by remaining in the United States, continue to assume–that they're going to get away with it.
Which category is Elon Musk in? We don't know. Most of the people in the Epstein files are innocent. But almost all of them seem to have been fine with (a) partying with an indicted and unrepentant pedophile [1] and (b) not saying for decades–and again, today–anything to the cops about a hive of child rape.
A lot of them should go to jail. All of them should be investigated. And almost all of them need to be retired from public life.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220224113217/https://www.theda...
(Clarification: I’m using the term colloquially. Whether Epstein had a mental condition is unclear.)
[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1180481...
Wasn't Edison an asshole?