For the love of God, an extra with a dialogue line is not “high-profile”. All of the extras (excuse me, “background performers”) I know have had scenes with stars. That doesn’t make them any more “high-profile” (they wish).

“Being an actor is a different deal all together. This career has the potential to give him fame”

I see you posted this before the update, but Black has said he was deceived by an old friend and has learned new details.

Huh? This isn’t relating to anything I said. I was never trying to defend the man or suggest what he did isn’t criminal, I was saying his denial of committed wrongdoing isn’t psychopathic. That characterization, in my opinion, is dangerous. It allows the rest of us to act like wrongdoing and denying said wrongdoing is…

It’s psychopathic behavior to deny wrongdoing now? Everybody on the planet would be a psychopath. And no, I am not defending him, if anything I am pointing to how routine denial of wrongdoing is. Characterizing it as psychopathic makes it sound like very few people do such a thing.

If we’re just going to treat people as pariahs the rest of their life after they leave prison, don’t them leave prison in the first place.

Second chance assumes rejoining society. Not being treated like a leper. “You’re free! But the only job you’re allowed to take is lighthouse keeper.”

I tend to agree, although the celebrity aspect of appearing on film with that kind of thing on your record does complicate things a bit. Largely because of the way we treat people who are in TV/movies/music/etc. There is the implication of those people being worthy of admiration, even though we all know that there are…

Being in a Hollywood movie is a job, not a privilege, especially these tiny roles that no one hears about except in a case like this. Only jobs he should be kept away from are the ones in which he has unsupervised access to minors.

Beingi a Hollywood movie is not that hard, dude. Just be lucky enough to live where they are shooting one, apply to be an extra, and voilà, you are in a Hollywood movie.

There are also extensive issues with the sex offender registry, which people can end up for offenses as minor as public urination and unduly impacts poor people who can’t afford good lawyers, regardless of guilt. There’s a heartbreaking article about this in the New Yorker, which describes a number of people whose…

We should have some sort of judicial system that looks at crimes and determines some sort of penalty.  Or we can just use the court of public opinion. 

There’s a massive false equivalency in the idea that allowing someone to work and have a career suddenly leads them to banging teenagers.

It’s increasingly complicated. Many U.S. counties and some states prohibit employers from asking about felony convictions on a job application. The employer can make the formal offer conditional upon the results of a background check, but they cannot run the check until the offer of employment is made. Applicants have…

I should have elaborated sharing screentime. You can shoot scenes for one film on entirely different weeks with entirely different members of the cast who never interact. 

It is actually dramatically lower then any other crime. FTFY.

I am not sure what the other actors were supposed to do here. You have this guy’s story, you have their director’s story, and you have the charges. You also have that she was upset he was there due to those prior charges, but not a claim he did anything while he as there and he was a bit player.

It’s not as he was the big star of the movie, nor would I expect he earned any stellar income from it. Did you see any indication he did “more harm” in those scenes? I think “no second chances” is exactly what this article is about.

A second chance is a second chance. The idea you want to limit what he is allowed to do for a living due to how much money he can make is a problem. I would agree he shouldn’t be working in any profession where he is in a classroom/ babysitting/etc, but a big hollywood movie being out of question, I gotta disagree.

Sex offenders don’t deserve second chances.  Got it.