I have been involved in this mess as a friend of a number of people involved who also happens to be a lawyer. As such, I have recommended a vigorous and uncompromising defense.
But that's just as a legal strategy. As a matter of decency, I think we should welcome shava's offer of mediation and I would hope that people would be able to reach out to him with compassion and treat him with civility and maybe even respect, regardless of his past misdeeds.
Lord Polonius My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
Hamlet God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in.
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Date: 2013-05-10 02:42 pm (UTC)But that's just as a legal strategy. As a matter of decency, I think we should welcome shava's offer of mediation and I would hope that people would be able to reach out to him with compassion and treat him with civility and maybe even respect, regardless of his past misdeeds.
Lord Polonius
My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
Hamlet
God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in.