Seamaiden
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I personally am in some agreement with indoorherbs. I'm old enough to remember McMartin Pre-school, that shit destroyed lives forever, its tentacles reached even farther with all these 'psychologists' helping people 'recover' memories of abuse that were later learned to basically be implanted memories.
To those of you who can't keep your own emotions in check, this is my one warning--keep it in check. We understand that this is a highly emotionally charged issue, but emotions should not be what rules the day, reason is. Keep it civil.
I still believe in not trying someone based simply on an accusation in the court of public opinion, however. I still believe in a justice process, however flawed it may be.
It seems to me that there's a lot of "I hate Advanced Nutrients, so I believe these allegations are true."
That's pretty evil if you ask me. That's basically saying you're hoping a little girl was abused because that vindicates all your evil feelings towards a particular company.
Maybe you don't know anyone who's ever been falsely accused of something like this. I honestly hope not, because it destroys the real victim's life (the one falsely accused) regardless of whether they're found guilty or not. There are no real consequences for lying about something like this, which makes it an easy way to destroy someone you want revenge against. Look at the Duke Lacrosse case. Think those guys will ever be completely free of that stigma? No.
It doesn't matter whether Gino is innocent or guilty, or whether a mountain of evidence proves he's innocent. Certain people here will always believe he's guilty because they WANT him to be guilty and for no other reason than to "prove" they were right all along to hate Advanced Nutrients.
To that point, let's have a little example. Imagine your best friend gets accused of something like this. Is he/she actually guilty? Of course not, right? Or are they? If you're any kind of a decent friend to them you'll stand by them and insist they're innocent. If you don't, they and you are not a good friend. Now if they're found guilty and there's conclusive proof... sure, I wouldn't defend my closest relative in that case. But until that point most decent human beings stand by their friends and defend them. Partly because they're decent human beings and that's what decent human beings do for their friends, and partly because they don't want to believe someone they called a friend is capable of such an act.
Now, let's say your closest friend turns out to be guilty of this kind of horrible act. Does that make YOU a bad person for being their friend? Of course not. It simply means they were able to hide that part of who they were from you. Bad people do that every day. If they didn't, they'd all get caught right away. If you stood up for them and defended them before you learned they were truly guilty, does THAT make you a bad person? Again, no it doesn't. It makes you a good person who stands up for their friends and believes in their innocence until they're proven guilty.
There is absolutely no difference between this scenario and what's going on with Gino and Advanced Nutrients. Maybe he's guilty, maybe he's innocent. But Advanced Nutrients is right to stand up for him and defend him until it's proven one way or the other. That doesn't make AN evil. Even if it turns out that Gino was guilty of this that doesn't mean that AN knew anything about it. Bad people keep their darkness hidden from everyone else, that's how they protect themselves from the good people in the world.
Using this as an excuse to hate Advanced Nutrients is like using Adam Lanza as an excuse to hate autistic people.
It's additionally worse given the very real likelihood that this whole thing is probably just an attack on Gino and/or Advanced Nutrients.
And shame for saying they deserve something like this for trying to help the poor in Bulgaria. What kind of a demented mind thinks that it's just for a man's life to be destroyed because he was naively trying to stop a bad government from continuing to oppress people without "bringing a gun" to the negotiation?
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