| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Community Awareness | |
| Posted by: | Adam Beamish | |
| Date/Time: | 20/06/12 19:57:00 |
| A character reference ?! - all Joy did was write about her personal experience of being in the guy's company. What's wrong with that ? - isn't she allowed to tell us of her personal experience ?. Are we only interested in hearing from anyone who's got bad things to say about someone ?. I've never met the guy, know nothing about him, in no way am condoning what he's done, and inevitably I can't help but form some kind of judgement about him as a person based on what I read, but who knows how I've find him if I met him tomorrow and didn't realise who he was ?. I've studied with a uni coursemate of mine who subsequently murdered his girlfriend and I've worked with a guy who got done for assault and another guy who was imprisoned for possessing child pornography. Whilst none of the three were ever my best mstes/close friends, they were all acquaintances of mine and not people I'd ever expect to carry out the acts they did. Of course I wouldn't give any of them a character reference, but if you asked me my personal experience of being around them it would be very much that they seemed like any other person - am I therefore in some way condoning murder, assault or downloading child porn ?. |