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Originally Posted by Catlady
I can't fully justify this to myself and my sense of ethics, except that the crime happened long ago when she was very young, and she was punished for it.
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My first thought is -- how would I know that there should be an additional penalty beyound what the New Zealand justice system metted out?
There also is the problem of how ex-convicts are to support themselves if people are going to continue to penalize them after their sentence is completed.
As for Susan Meachen, maybe she will be charged with crimes, and maybe not. While U.S. law enforcement isn't perfect, I don't think that I know better what penalty, if any, she should face.
I wonder if readers, who feel that reading decisions are an up or down vote on the character of the author, are only going to read authors whose publicly known character fits into their value scheme. Then reading, rather than opening up the mind to understanding people far different from ourselves, will close it.
So, in my sense of ethics, your Anne Perry reading decision is fully justified.