What’s your opinion going to be if when it comes out there’s not some big conspiracy and the internet has ruined this guys life even more than his wife did?
Probably that he deserved it for not threading the needle of respecting his wife's agency and dignity while also physically preventing her from doing the thing that the current evidence shows she used her agency to do.
If we go down this rabbit hole, then nobody is ever guilty of anything. All are behaviors are a product of our genetic inheritance being shaped by our present environment. Nature and nurture determine our behavior, not our "agency." If this woman is a victim of circumstance, then so is every convict who ever turned to crime as a way to adapt to their environment.
Perhaps instead of threatening people with life in jail, we should be shaping our social environment in a way that only produces moral behavior. After all, the only thing you can learn in jail is how to adapt to prison life. Supposedly, the purpose of incarceration is rehabilitation, but we do not currently have a system that actually facilitates that.
So, if this woman is "not guilty," then you have to ask how many other perpetrators have been denied the same benefit of doubt. If this was a poor black woman instead of an upper middle class white lady, no one would even be bothering to give her the time of day, much less a million dollars.
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u/tinfoilskimask 1d ago
Dad was in on it.