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Originally posted by numist
I am age-blind, Michael Jackson is still a kid at heart due to his childhood with bad parents, and I really do feel sorry for the pain that the man has been forced to endure.
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He did have an atrocious childhood, but so did any number of other citizens, with fewer resources, and you don't (for the most part) see them running around acting childish and molesting kids. If he made any sort of effort to rehabilitate himself, I could grant him the "abusive past" defense, but he just keeps getting weirder and the allegations keep coming. Whatever happened to him, HE is the one who chose how to react to it, and it seems that by and large his reaction has been to escape from reality and responsibility. He has the money to afford therapy, I can only assume he doesn't want help or is so far gone mentally that he really ought to be committed. Whether or not his actions are inappropriately (i.e., sexually)
motivated, they are clearly being perceived as inappropriate by some of the objects of his...er...attentions. His past is sad, but there's no reason to compound the sadness by spreading it to another generation of children just because he's in too much emotional pain/denial to grow up and act like an adult.