8th December 2017, 8:06 PM
It's for the best. Never get so caught up a single person that you feel compelled to ignore damning sins. As Mark Twain might put it, sure Bill Clinton is a good speaker, but there are undoubtedly better speakers somewhere out there right now, toiling in obscurity just because mere chance deemed that he should come to prominence and not them. Many of them will be minorities and women, so the hunt should be on for those who can replace Clinton.
Just imagine extending this "They are too important to the cause you need to swallow your selfish need for justice and let them continue the good work" to other crimes. If someone is the sole provider of some perfect cure for all possible cancers, but is selfish enough to keep it proprietary, does that mean that morally we are obligated to overlook the cavern of bones in his basement from all the orphans he has eaten alive?
Just imagine extending this "They are too important to the cause you need to swallow your selfish need for justice and let them continue the good work" to other crimes. If someone is the sole provider of some perfect cure for all possible cancers, but is selfish enough to keep it proprietary, does that mean that morally we are obligated to overlook the cavern of bones in his basement from all the orphans he has eaten alive?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)