It [is] disingenuous to put this down to the ethos of the time, or to say that we should be concentrating on what is happening today.

Why, yes, Jim, it is far more important to dwell on the past misdeeds of dead people, than it would be to question our own conduct in the present.

Yeah, right.

It was a bad thing. The people who did it should be punished, but they are now dead or in retirement homes. To my mind, it appears that you and Musket at very good at the same moralistic judgmentalism you accuse the Catholic Church of.

If things are wrong or if harm is being done, it must be stopped. When things have happened in the past, I think we need to stop and question what good will be done by opening those wounds all over again. I think twenty years is a good number. If it happened more than twenty years ago, there's little you can do to fix it, so maybe it's time to drop it.

I admit that I am still angry at the constant harassment I received from a coworker from 1981-1999. It made my life at work hell a lot of the time, and it gets me angry all over again to think of it. But that was another time, and it's best for me to let it drop.


-Joe Offer-