Self righteous rants are one approach to such situations..

The unforgiving condemnation of offending individuals to a lifetime, even eternity of damnation...

Well.. maybe that can help some folks feel better about themselves,
in a kind of "at least I'm not as bad as he is..." sort of way...
Like in prisons where a nonce's life expectancy in general population is very short...

Then there are words such as "contrition", "repentance", "redemption";
which seem to go down well with people holding more forgiving beliefs...

Obviously, it's the shouty hotheads who often tend to win arguments...


Just a reminder, in recent years, an immigrant in Bristol was beaten and burnt to death in public,
after being accused of being a kiddie fiddler..
..because he was foreign and looked a bit weird.

Of course he was an entirely innocent victim of lynch mob violence...

I don't care enough about Yarrow as an individual,
but the principle of him being allowed a 2nd chance so many decades after his conviction,
does merit serious discussion...

It's not Like he's Gary Glitter...???