The Charges against Judge Kavanaugh Should Be Ignored
Even if true, they tell us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17.
It is almost impossible to overstate the damage done to America’s moral compass by taking the charges leveled against Judge Brett Kavanaugh seriously.
It undermines foundational moral principles of any decent society.
Those who claim that the charges against Judge Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford are important and worth investigating and that they ultimately, if believed, invalidate his candidacy for the U.S. Supreme Court are stating that:
a) What a middle-age adult did in high school is all we need to need to know to evaluate an individual’s character — even when his entire adult life has been impeccable.
b) No matter how good and moral a life one has led for ten, 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years, it is nullified by a sin committed as teenager.
No decent — or rational — society has ever believed such nihilistic nonsense.
This is another example of the moral chaos sown by secularism and the Left. In any society rooted in Judeo-Christian values, it is understood that people should be morally assessed based on how they behave over the course of their lifetime — early behavior being the least important period in making such an assessment.
I looked, and for some reason I can't find any of Prager's advocacy for juvenile offenders languishing in prison for decades, restoration of felon voting rights, or anything of that sort. Maybe I missed it. In any case, this overlooks a pretty obvious problem. If Kavanaugh did it, he's lying about it right now. He's also letting a smear campaign go on against Ford despite her allegations being true if he did it. That is the opposite of contrition. It is a serious moral fault not in the past. You'd think anyone with an IQ above room temperature would notice that fact, but nope.
Oh, but it gets better:
A generation ago, a drunk teenager at a party groping a teenage girl over her clothing while trying to remove as much of her clothing as possible would not have been defended or countenanced. But it would not have been deemed as inducing post-traumatic stress disorder either.
This weakening of the female is perfectly illustrated by the statement released by Susanna Jones, head of Holton-Arms School, the private preparatory school for girls in Bethesda, Md., that the accuser attended. “As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers,” Jones said.
“Empowers women”? Please.
Nearly every woman past puberty has experienced a man trying to grope her. (This is, needless to say, wrong.) My mother was groped by a physician. She told my father about it. My father told the physician that if he were to do it again, he would break his hands. And it remained a family folk tale. If you had told my mother she was a “survivor,” she would have wondered what you were talking about. The term was reserved for people who survived Nazi concentration camps and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and for cancer survivors, not women groped by a man.
When my wife was a waitress in her mid teens, the manager of her restaurant grabbed her breasts and squeezed them on numerous occasions. She told him to buzz off, figured out how to avoid being in places where they were alone, and continued going about her job. That’s empowerment.
You see, powering through an assault makes you empowered. If you are beat up by a bully at school every day and learn to sneak around them without making any waves, that makes you empowered. Women who experience sexual assault, likewise, are empowered if they just tough it out. They shouldn't cause trouble for their assailants by doing things like interfering with their job prospects. That's making them weaker. His advice to women who have experienced sexual assault? Get over it.
And as a final cap off, we've got this add-on:
In sum, I am not interested in whether Mrs. Ford, an anti-Trump activist, is telling the truth. Because even if true, what happened to her was clearly wrong, but it tells us nothing about Brett Kavanaugh since the age of 17. But for the record, I don’t believe her story. Aside from too many missing details — most women remember virtually everything about the circumstances of a sexual assault no matter how long ago — few men do what she charges Kavanaugh with having done only one time.
For the record both of his arguments here are empirically false. Women do not "remember virtually everything about a sexual assault no matter how long ago." It's actually common for memories to have blank spots in traumatic events. This is well attested in the literature and there is even a neurological understanding of why this occurs. It also is not true that people who have attempted sexual assault once almost invariably are serial offenders. It's of course better for your case if there is one accuser rather than multiple accusers, but the presence of only one accuser doesn't prove that the allegation is probably false.
