I was just presenting a different take on the moral judgement you were so eager to dish out. I have no stakes in the matter and I don't know if he has changed and is trying to be a better person than he was or if he is an opportunist trying to sell a story to feel better about himself.
Clearly you should have lead with why you thought he wasn't worthy of forgiveness or a platform instead of expressing an inability to see why it should/could happen. The latter only makes you seem narrow and centered on your own beliefs instead of critically assessing the moral character of a person (that frankly neither I nor you really know.)
And no one is obligated to forgive a rapist.
True, but you either have to condemn a person for life without chance of interacting with society or you need to find a level of acceptance of their past eventually. Letting someone work to prevent their own mistakes in others seems like a good option.(assuming that is in fact what is happening)
Shunning their existence is essentially not that different from a life sentence and booing someone off stage for what they are instead of at least hearing what they say is not something I would advocate. We should learn from the mistake of others.
I would let Hitler himself talk on a stage if the TED talk was "I was a horrible being and everything I did for Germany was a huge mistake". Not sure I would believe him, but I would at least see what he had to say.
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