If a person commits serious harm at twenty, accepts responsibility for it, experiences consequences, spends ten years attempting to become someone who will never inflict that harm again, and reaches thirty only to discover that nothing done during those intervening years possesses any moral weight whatsoever, then “rehabilitation” has become a word describing a process whose successful completion we have defined as ontologically impossible – asymptotic, even.

As far as I'm concerned this is the definitive writing on The Jacob Geller situation and also as close as you're gonna get to a stance on it from me. I am very frustrated and disappointed both by the actions and history revealed (obviously) but also by the unbelievably cruel and simplistic response on the social media spheres about this. A simple-minded focus on punishment with no clear end other than punishment.

Sexual assault deserves moral condemnation, full stop. It does not follow that every behavior performed under the banner of condemning sexual assault is therefore morally admirable.