It’s fair to say Epstein‘s victims were manipulated, coerced, and worse.

You’ve made choices, too, but we don’t spend the rest of your life reminding you of them.

Although it is true that registrants made a choice, your perspective is rather simplistic. Virtually everyone on the registry made some choice or made a mistake which resulted in a criminal conviction. It is also true that they paid for their mistake/choice in the criminal justice system.

The registry is not part of that punishment. I’m not aware of any criminal statute that specifies registration as potential punishment for a crime. Imprisonment and fines are most commonly specified as retribution. Although not considered punishment by most courts, the registry is indeed punishing, and applied long after a debt to society has been paid in full.

I’ll use a contemporary example to illustrate the absurdity of your “choices” argument. Today there are many people who choose to not be vaccinated or to wear masks. That choice can have negative consequences for the person, for those around him, and for society at large. Would you suggest that being put behind the vaccinated for treatment should be a result of that choice? Except for the fact that person can spread the virus and harm others, his decision could just be considered as natural selection in action.

Do you subscribe to that thesis? If not, why would you summarily dismiss the non-judicial punishment of the registry as simply a consequence of a bad choice?

Veritas.

@Anon

Epstein’s victims also made a “choice” to be massage therapists on his island. Your point?

Thanks for reminding us. It is easy to get frustrated and give up. But those that win are those that keep playing to the end.

Sure its not always easy to rebuke mankind but in many measures one has to fight for truth and justice. Their is safety in numbers and one has to look at Justice or government as an eyesore and even a blind man can see that.

In the examples above, the players made a mistake of judgement. I would contend that it is no different with most sexual offenses. To boil it down to a simple matter of making a choice to commit crime shows that one fundamentally does not understand the issue and cannot intelligently speak on it.