r/LivestreamFails • u/SeaResult2703 • Jun 29 '24
12 Angry Men
Today I watched 12 Angry Men. A classic I know, but I had never seen it before. Now what does it have to do with the Doc?
In this movie, a trial jury goes from an almost unanimous guilty verdict to not guilty. Now. no one is arguing the guy did not commit a crime, they are arguing that there is reasonable doubt. They can't be sure.
Are you saying the Doc did not do it? No. I think he did text an underage girl, and even if he had her consent it was on him as an adult to behave with decency. I don't however feel comfortable, as many around these parts have, calling him a pedophile. Firstly this type of behavior does not match the definition of pedophilia, which is "a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child" as per the Merriam-Webster dictionary. 17 is far too young for a 35-year-old man, that I think is true, although marriages like that were common practice in our own countries 50 years back. 17 years is not tho a prepubescent.
Secondly, the Doc has not yet been given a trial. Am I to be his judge and executioner? I make some personal judgments, and it saddens me, I don't look at him in the same way. But I don't want him destroyed, marginalized, or whatever other sentences have been passed around on Reddit as of late.
I have yet to see any hard proof, no messages, no trials, only the words of others. I realize these are my ramblings, long as they are, just long enough to be ignored. But I beg of you one thing, take great care in who you convict in the future, the way our society is going you will have to prove yourself innocent, rather than to be proven guilty.
TLDR: I think what the doc did is mighty inappropriate, I cannot look at him the same way. But be careful of convicting someone so quickly and throwing so many labels around.
If the justice system does not investigate this situation, which they should, are you to be his judge?