If the character’s name is “Lance Skywalker” or “Big Rondo Skywalker,” I’ll allow it.

Make it a period piece. Should’ve done that years ago

Kind of off topic, but I’ve often wondered how much better X-Files would have been in the end if they got rid of Chris Carter.

I’m not righteous. It’s extremely easy to know what side to be on here, and it’s not the side that writes letters to judges praising child rapists. Or thinking that condemning such letters is equivalent to lynch mobs. I’m hardly a saint for recognizing that’s bad. It’s sort of baseline humanity. I’m sorry you’re…

I must in all charity assume this is parody.

You just compared getting an abortion to being a pedophile. If you’re not a troll, then you’re a vile human being who almost certainly has harmed children. You also don’t know what “due process” is and are just blindly using buzzwords like a child. 

“The unpopular” is a weird way to say “pedophile”. I think you need to quit when you are already way, way behind. 

One of my closest friends had an affair, while married and with kids. His affair was with another woman who had kids. When I learned this, I ceased to be his friend. Because it was vile, and I realized I didn’t know this person at all. It wasn’t a hard choice.

It’s not frightening. You shouldn’t write a letter in praise of a pedophile and if you do, you should be publicly shamed. This really isn’t difficult. 

You don’t have a Civil right to have people write letters to the judge on your behalf. Many trials don’t even have them. It is not like having a lawyer. If people choose to write letters on behalf of someone who rapes children, then they choose to live with consequences of that.

“even those who have done horrific crimes.”

Sure, at which point you go “okay, bye.” And never talk to them again. My point was the philosophy of “if my friend is accused of something I will immediately cut all ties with them” makes you a pretty shit friend. I would want to at least hear what they have to say.

As I understand it, this guy’s side of the story was “yes, I diddled kids.” 

The lawyers who defend obviously guilty clients aren’t doing so because they sympathize with those defendants. They’re doing it because they believe that integrity needs to be continuously reinforced in our criminal justice system by making the prosecutors do their jobs.

“Say what you will about AV Club, but they sure are shitty now”

No, because most court cases don’t have them. They’re used in very specific examples lol

I listened to the episode of Pod Meets World where Strong and Friedle talk about Peck. Some impressions...

They don’t let themselves off the hook for writing letters of support. Friedle in particular refers to supporting Peck in court as his, “ever-loving shame.”

They talk a lot about experiences on set, with Peck, and…

A person writing letters on behalf of a diddler is a choice they made.

You shouldn’t be friends with a pedophile. Sorry that you need to be told this by a stranger on the internet. Comparing willing friendship and support to a constitutionally required defense attorney is willfully obtuse and proves you have no argument.

Personally, if I had a friend who was known to have, or accused to have diddled kids, I would not remain friends with that person, nor would I write a letter defending them. But I’m weird like that.