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To: E who wrote (122193)	10/4/2009 10:34:02 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542214

My husband and I were talking about this yesterday. I think it is probably good for her that she forgave him (traveling around with unresolved anger is bad for people), but it is irrelevant to the law and (imo) to the punishment. Punishments cannot be determined by how forgiving your victim is- that's arbitrary and capricious. Whoopi, imo, admires Poalnski's art and so wants Polanski to be innocent. Well I admire his movies, but the art is separate from the man. One can admire the art, but want the man to do jail time. If a brilliant painter commits murder, we don't say "Well it wasn't murder- murder." He should do the time- regardless of how brilliant he is. Money shouldn't get you out of a sentence (though in this country it often does), and being famous shouldn't get your out of a sentence- and even though both money and fame DO often get people out of jail, the rest of us shouldn't applaud that. Anything can be bought in America, including, often, "justice"- and that's kind of a sad commentary on the commoditization of life in America.