I can understand the logic of some crimes, such as murders, or even massacres. I was put on lots of medications as a child, and thankfully they noticed one combination of SSRI's put me into a Columbine state where it was like I was disconnected from my body and just wanted to kill myself or others.
I can never, and will never, understand or feel sorry for child rapists. I'm still out on Micheal Jackson since there's not enough evidence, but Gary Glitter and this guy? They can hang for all I care.
Note I said child rapists. There are exceptions.
Consider Paul Reubens.
On November 15, 2002, while he was filming David La Chapelle's video for Elton John's "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore", Reubens learned that policemen were at his house with a search warrant, acting on a tip from a witness in the pornography case against actor Jeffrey Jones, finding among over 70,000 items of kitsch memorabilia, two grainy videotapes and dozens of what the city attorney's office characterized as a collection of child pornography. Kelly Bush, Reubens' PR at the time, said the description of the items was inaccurate and claimed the objects were "Rob Lowe's videotape and a few isolated 30- to 100-year-old kitsch collectible images".
Reubens later stated that he was a collector of "erotic artwork", a collection that includes films, muscle magazines and a sizable collection of both heterosexual and homosexual vintage erotica, such as photographic studies of teen nudes. Reubens claimed that what the city attorney's office viewed as pornography, he considered innocent art and that what they described as people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation was in fact a judgmental point of view of the nudes which Reubens described as people "one hundred percent not" performing sexual acts. Being a big collector, Reubens had often bought in bulk, with one of his vintage magazines dealers declaring that "there's no way" he could have known the content of each page in the publications he bought and that he recalled Reubens asking for "physique magazines, vintage '60s material, but not things featuring kids".
"Personally, I think we're living in a very scary time. Do we let the legal system decide in a courtroom what's obscene and what's not obscene?(...) One thing I want to make very, very clear, I don't want anyone for one second to think that I am titillated by images of children. It's not me. You can say lots of things about me. And you might. The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true."
In this case, almost Victorian era photographs found in a search among THOUSANDS of innocent historical material was used to railroad a star. The case was eventually thrown out.
