A person is a reflection of their culture, of what they believe and how they live their lives. A bridge between the past and the future, between time and space and needs to try to keep them in harmony, less they become unbalanced. Not to be aware of the past and give it due consideration in the building of the future can distort the future. Neither is it wise to sacrifice your future because you choose to live in or as if you are in the past. One World One Human Race One Destiny (OWOHROD)
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE 'WITCH FINDER' BRUTALITY OF THE 'OUTING OF ALLEGED HISTORIC SEXUAL OFFENDERS'. THE END..!
He might now have been rehabilitated. Even though, in the trial of the alleged offence, the prosecuting counsel might, behave towards and treat the alleged offender, as if he was still the person he/she was, all those decades ago.
Even when it is patently clear that they are not. And by the same token, if they are rehabilitated, then they pose no danger to the public or the community.
Consequently, the primary purpose of sentencing such a convicted person, is most probably that of punishing them.
It would not be meaningful or accurate to increase the sentence of a person found guilty of historic sexual offences, on the premis that it is being done in order to protect the community or public.
And/or to deter others from committing similar offences, since the offences are historic, and cannot therefore be replicated, retrospectively.
Like the prosecuting barrister who tries to make the now reformed and essentially different accused, fit the historic caricature he/or she makes him out to be.
In order to convince the jury that he is guilty, which is his, the prosecuting counsel's starting and finishing point, whether or not the defendant is actually guilty.
In the case of what could be categorised as the allegations of historic sexual offences by 'celebrities', the accused is confronted with an even more desperate situation.
Although they might have and get some support from families and close friends, the nature of allegations of sexual offences, founded or unfounded, are such that, any expression of support for the alleged offender is fraught.
Consequently nobody or only very few people will speak up for the accused, for the 'damned.'
For fear of being themselves labelled and ostracised as being 'witches' and 'demons', and in league with and supporting them.
Accordingly, it is considered safer for you to denounce the 'witches', the 'damned', even if you do not believe they are guilty.
Or that they are now no longer the people who are alleged or might have committed the alleged acts, in the past.
And so it is that the land is consumed with fear and confusion. Fear that an accusation could be made against you, fear that an accusation could be made against someone you know and respect.
Fear that your reputation might be tarnished because you know or knew such a person. Fear of guilt by association, as the process of the 'witch finder general' increases its momentum and nazification.
And the flames are fed, by such acts as the film industry trying to rewrite history by removing celebrities from films which have already been made and people have enjoyed watching.
From which loads of money have already been made. By the social media being used to exhort people to join the crusade and disclose alleged sexual offenders and denounce 'the accused.'
Now, none of the above is meant to refute the fact that men exploit and abuse women, sexually and in other ways, and have been doing so for thousands of years.
There is evidence to suggest that positive changes are being made in improving the status of women, with the rate of change being faster in some societies than in others.
The allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviours are allegations which, to a lesser or greater extent, could be made against any man, at different points in his life.
To succumb to the hysterical criminalisation of certain conduct between people, conducts which have probably become socialised, is not going to be an effective way of addressing the problem.
The response needs to be more thought out, balanced and integrated. It is not in anybody's interest for society to return to the dreadful 'puritanical' age of the past.
After all, we have seen how women in some tribal societies are still being subjected to the gross abuses of such systems.
It needs to be part and parcel of the whole and continuing struggle to build and evolve into a more equal, fairer and happier society of humans.
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