On 14/07/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 7/13/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 7/14/06, Sue Reed <sreed1234(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
While working on something completely different,
I came across the page for
[[Eric_the_Midget]].
You could call this "Sterncruft" (SCNR). There's a lot of it on WP. Of
course, the crucial difference to Peppers is that Peppers did not
choose to become the object of ridicule and humiliation.
The other crucial difference is that Peppers is convicted of a felony
(and not a victimless felony either, but one involving force or threat
of force). Unless the Ohio government seriously screwed up, Peppers
is not an innocent victim.
It is, of course, possible to be guilty of one thing and not guilty of
another. I know a chap who was convicted for a particularly farcical
robbery attempt; he's guilty, no doubt, and it wasn't a victimless
crime. But if I wandered around this evening and kicked him in the
face, he'd be pretty justified in considering himself an innocent
victim of my mindless assault.
I don't see how Peppers being convicted of something means we should
help people kick *him* in the face because they feel like it.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk