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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I don't see Whoopi as an apologist at all. I think she, like many, just doesn't see this issue in stark black and white. There are shades of grey in most things. And those shades, in this case, are further muddied by time. As usual, we get passionate (almost to the point of getting out the mad villager torches and pitchforks) with out taking a pause. My instinct in these sorts of things is to back off and try to be as dispassionate as possible. I never want to find myself at the heart of mob... or mob-think.
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Yeah, but.....
In some things in life, there are lines which is black on one side and white on the other. In this case, it's a pretty easy to define line. Age. It's easily quantified.
It is illegal to have sex with a person under the age of 16, or 14, or 18. (Especially if you're a 44 year old man. It might be shades of grey if he was 16 and she was 13, but 44 and 13 - that's black and white.)
I'm not one clamouring for Polanski to be castrated, or fried, however, he needs to face the music on this one.
I read yesterday that even the French have backed off calling for his release. Now that's interesting.
French government drops support for Polanski - Yahoo! News