Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iuw1mom wrote

To OP’s point, how would he have faired post #metoo? That whole movement was about holding people accountable for allegations made about things they did decades ago.

1

IncidentFar3094 t1_iuw5mtz wrote

That's a good question. Unanswerable, since the man is dead. Whan should an ideal me-too perp do? What should society ideally do to them, for punishment or retribution? (I believe justice does not endorse revenge as a proper role of punishment, perhaps since revenge leads to cycles of violence.)

I think the first question is interesting, about what place EK would find himself now. If he got to a place in his life where he stopped pawing at waitresses that's one thing, but what else would he need to do? Go back and apologize to each of them? Teach others to be better? Apologize on TV? Confess?

Or is this conversation about escaping justice for Chappaquiddick? (Which I don't think is me-too, since it is more like manslaughter). I can't think of a good comparison case where the police declined to indict, but the accused somehow gets punished anyway. I haven't really heard of anyone punishing themselves. Isn't punishment something society must do?

2