i don't believe we should be judging someone's fitness to hold office on some dumb s*** they did 30 years ago when they were a horny teenager
Can we come back to this?
Cause like...yeah, everyone does stupid shit when they're teenagers.
But not like...allegedly placing their hands over a girl's mouth so that she can't scream and turning up the stereo so that nobody else in the house will hear, while they try to violently rip her clothes off.
Most kids don't do that.
We're not talking like "he did some underage drinking" or "oh, he did drugs" or "he did drinking and driving" or "he got into a lot of fist fights" or even "oh, he did some petty theft." It's not the fact that what he tried to do was illegal. Teenagers do a lot of illegal stuff...whatever, who cares about most of the illegal stuff most teenagers do?
But what he allegedly did crosses a line for me from "reckless teenager" to "Wow, that's just evil."
Rape--or in this case attempted premeditated rape, is just in a different category of morality similar to murder. The United States used to have the death penalty for rapists, before the Supreme Court struck that down. That's how seriously rape has been taken in the past, because you can't really make excuses for behaviour like this. You really need to want to do harm to another human being to even do such a thing.
Except the accusations are fake. Oops, now that entire wall of text means nothing. ---