d3200prime wrote:
Nope, no judgement here. Flawed man I am and so are we all. So, you feel the need to dodge the issue by accusing me of being judgemental. Just get off the holier than thou stuff. If you want to assume ALL the women Weinstein was involved with were coerced that is your privilege. I choose to assume at least one of them willingly participated. You don't know if they were all coerced and I don't know that they weren't. We are at a Mexican standoff as they say. Anyway, it should be interesting to see how this plays out.
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“If you want to assume ALL the women Weinstein was involved with were coerced that is your privilege. I choose to assume at least one of them willingly participated.” And so, with this, you reserve for yourself the judgement of others, and your own superiority to judge others without being judged yourself?
You believe so much?
It’s not for you to judge whether a woman chose adultery or was blamed or blackmailed into it. One woman coerced, stripped and raped, or forced, or who participated to save her career—that’s for her to choose, and for her to risk judgment by someone Greater Than You. Attend your own sins, and let others be judged for theirs by Someone Above, not you, immersed in sins of your own, weakness and confusion you too were born to.
If you believe in a Superior being, can not He deal without your assistance? Would you assist him? Would you
replace Him?
If you don’t believe in such a Superior Being, do you suggest
you replace His absence? Or act in His place? Do you nominate yourself as being the Subject of the Bible, the Moving Force, the Judging One To Judge All, without sin or blemish. Are you the First Cause, the All Perfect, who validates all, judges all, knows all, punishes all?
You presume too much.
Have you never chosen sin or weakness to protect yourself, your family, or your career? Are you so superior, You Alone can judge, can assist Your Maker, or replace Your Maker, can judge, raised by your purity, or your perfection, or your prurient enthusiasm?
Let the man who erred repeatedly stand before society, guilty and judged, and his victims, those he abused and violated, who may have weakened and bowed in fear—let them be judged by a Perfect Judge, without blemish or sin or weakness.
And, my friend, that ain’t you.
The man coerced women, seduced, raped, or violated them, and the degree of willingness of the victim is not your concern.