What that has to do with anything is beyond me.Originally Posted by Ronin
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What that has to do with anything is beyond me.
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The act happens in cold blood (not really in practical but rather in the sense of the terminus technicus), there is no defense option for insanity at all.
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Even if you consider attraction to children to be a mental disorder, acting on it isn't. Hence paedophelia isn't really a mental disorder. That's like saying people with an insatiable appetite for killing people shouldn't be jailed (in the case that they actually didn't control their urge and killed people). The point Ronin is making (I think), is hey, most of us are attracted to womn, but we dont force ourselves on them, there's a thing called self control. There's sense of right and wrong in most people's actions, not the case for paedophiles. Polanski fully deserves to go to jail. I'm surprised hobosexual actually sympathises with this guy.
As far as his age at the time...lets do the math: he's 76 now, the lawsuit was in 1977 and he fled in 1978. Taking 1977 to be the year of the incident, its 32 years ago, which would've made him 44, 43 at best. He's a paedophile, pure and simple.
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All I'm saying is even the girl wanted the charges against him dropped.
The man made a mistake, what he did was obviously wrong no one is saying it isn't.
It's not even like he would be getting off easy, I'm sure he regrets what he did, and I dunno if the entire world knew I had done something like that I feel like that would be a punishment in and of itself.
Basically if even the girl who he ***** can move on and forgive him why the hell can't we, I'm sure the trauma of having the experience brought up again and again and again by all these people is pretty shitty for her.
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Ugh, the article makes a convincing bid for the director's freedom.
Yet, law should be indiscriminating...
Damn. This is hard.
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if the girl wanted the charges to be dropped theres no real reason to make him go to jail imo...
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You get to **** one little girl for every Academy Award-winning film you direct.
That's the law.
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The Judge of the case was going to accept a plea bargain but backed out on the deal and that is what caused Roman to flee the United States, and as stated by others before, the woman herself wishes the charges were dropped.
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