christopher::: wrote:While i think we should try to be nonjudgmental about Michael Jackson, putting ourselves in his shoes, i think that courtesy should also be extended to folks who feel some aversion towards him, when there are sensible reasons for that.
Is aversion always a "bad" thing? As a parent with 2 sons, there are situations that i try to steer them clear of, that i have taught them to "avert."
You don't go into rooms alone with adults, where the door is closed. How some parents could allow their kids to be alone with Michael, is a mystery to me.
I would have an "aversion" to my sons walking into a room with
any adult on this planet, alone, where the door is closed.
I don't feel its right to judge Michael Jackson for this, but i can understand how he pushes a natural protective button in many sincerely caring parents...
Still, there is no "proof" that he ever did anything wrong, and the past is gone.
i think that courtesy should also be extended to folks who feel some aversion towards him, when there are sensible reasons for that.
What journey said.
Is aversion always a "bad" thing? As a parent with 2 sons, there are situations that i try to steer them clear of, that i have taught them to "avert."
You don't go into rooms alone with adults, where the door is closed.
That's not aversion,that's caution...
I would have an "aversion" to my sons walking into a room with any adult on this planet, alone, where the door is closed.
I'd say you feel concerned & protective, not aversion.
How some parents could allow their kids to be alone with Michael, is a mystery to me.
Yes. there you have a point. However, some either knew nothing bad would happen, and some thought: "Oh, money, money, money...let's see how to get some. Let's blackmail the guy. He will pay. He's got a reputation to lose." And initially that strategy may have paid off well.
Look at me. I am a private teacher, should I am now be concerned a male pupil could accuse me of seduction? What if??? How could I ever prove I didn't?
My reputation and livelihood would be destroyed forever, like Michaels.
And people would say: "She is a sick pedophile".
Some would say: "She was too innocent and naive, she just enjoyed helping children."
It would give me insomnia and migraine.
I would take sleeping pills and painkillers to be able to go to work.
One day, whilst exerting myself over work, I would collapse in my house, and be found by a friend "not breathing".
The city would gossip about me, and badmouth me, most of those wouldn't even know what I looked like and never heard me speak a word. Total strangers.
Yet they would be convinced: She abused a boy.
Why?
Do we assume in others that, what we carry within ourselves?