It's kind of a tangent, but as someone who worry a lot of prisioner's rights, how do people function knowing that literal murderers and rapists will eventually get out of prison, get jobs, form families and live a normal productive life?
It's such a fucked up debate, because when I say I hope a - again - literal murderer and rapist eventually get to recover and live a normal life, I will always get someone trying to put in my mouth the words that I think what they did was ok, or that I think they shouldn't be held accountable, or that I don't care about the victims, and so on.
It's not about giving him a free pass, it's not about saying what he did was ok, it's not about defending him being an asshole edgelord, but it is about recognizing that there is nothing - absolutely nothing - to be gained by just kicking someone for a past mistake when he has done everything in his power to show that he has changed. And it wasn't hate speech, and it wasn't incitment of violence, and it wasn't actual defense of pedophilia, it wasn't even a dog whistle to none of those things. It was a dumb person doing a dumb thing that he recognized it was dumb and never did it again.
If you are so appaled that people are willing to let go a joke, how do you even exist in a society where we believe people who murdered and raped can be reformed?
