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Originally Posted by Trollheart
He was clearly guilty and to be honest you're, as Guybrush said, pretty stupidly naive if you think he wasn't.
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I'm just rational
Not riding on the "not guilty" or "guilty" idea, because there is just too much contradictory data.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Tell me, do you think OJ was innocent? He got off too, so he must not have done it, right?
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OJ Simpson was acquitted at first, but then found guilty. It's right there in the first paragraph on his Wikipedia page.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Edit: Also, you're the one who's brought the "hate vibe" into the thread. Up to now it was, as it was intended to be, pretty light-hearted with some verbal fencing and a few verbal kicks in the verbal bal... ance of opinion. From my OP:
Give reasons if you want but you don't have to.
So anyone can vote for Jackson without explaining why. You were the one, if I recall, who demanded to know why, and now it's exploded into a whole weird defence of him
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So asking for an explanation is being negative?
Saying "I won't listen to Xs music because we all know what a bastard he is" is fine, but asking "why is he a bastard?" is hate?
Come on...
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
If Jackson had been an ordinary, non-wealthy person accused of these crimes he would be in jail now. It was only his celebrity status and his money that saved him.
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Really, it works exactly the other way around.
I thought that rich/celebrty people can get past the juridicial system when I was like 12.
It might work that wa if you're like Elon Musk of=r she other banking clan type person, but it doesn't when you work in culture.
If you're a well-known musician selling millions of albums, you're more likely to be found guilty when charged, because the "society" makes an "example" out of you.
You can get out on bail, sure.
You can pay or something for your jail time, sure.
But you can't dictate whether you're found guilty or not.
Anyway, as long as someone isn't found guilty on strong evidence, they shouldn't be considered "guilty".
Otherwise we just go back to out caveman days when if someone said "he beat/raped me" we just go out and torch that person out to hell.