On 14/07/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 7/13/06, Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/14/06, Sue Reed sreed1234@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.