Of course our actions have consequences.
As the audience we seem to think it’s our right, simply because he’s got more money and a more public life (feel free to stay on context of what I was replying to) to be judge, jury and executioner. Doing so is not in fact how you keep society civil. It is however how you rile the natives and arm them with the courage of the crowd. There are quite literally billions of examples of that throughout human history.
If some random stranger said what he did, I’m quite sure you’d judge the person but you also wouldn’t be posting about it on an Internet forum and dragging that person over the coals and claiming because he could afford a $20 Starbucks and you couldn’t or that he had more FB friends than you that he thusly deserved your public hanging of him right there on the street. (Again context of what I was replying to)
Yeah, I’m implying pretty much the vast majority of the most outspoken and critical here are behaving within double standard lines. That they haven’t a clue the turmoil this man has had to live for years on end. And that while they sit in the anonymous audience being all judgy, and free with their critical opinions, in the next breath they are hypocrites.
And no, this doesn’t mean I condone his behavior or his words simply because I’ve not jumped on the public bandwagon here. I’m riding on my own, it just happens to be private because I’m smart enough to know I don’t have all the information. But even if I did have all the info, I’d keep my thoughts to myself lest I be judged and flogged for one of my many human transgressions in life.