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 >>> would regard her as a very underserving recipient of royal compensation. 
 >>> She was, objectively, a prostitute. It is said that she recruited other 
 >>> girls into the fold. Can she be absolved of all responsibility? 
 >>> 
 >>> But the main point of all this is, she was a victim of Epstein and 
 >>> Maxwell, not of Andrew Mountbottom-Windsor.  From his point of view, she 
 >>> was a friendly, smiling young prostitute provided by his good rich 
 >>> friend, and Andrew didn't groom her or share her with his friends, he 
 >>> merely had a few quick fucks. So I cannot see that Andrew is to blame 
 >>> for what befell Epstein's victims. What else can we blame him for? The 
 >>> months or years of continuing contact with Epstein after Epstein was 
 >>> convicted. I don't see that as a big deal. He did not manipulate the 
 >>> justice system in the way that Trump does. Or campaign openly for his 
 >>> friend. 
 >> 
 >> Well said. 
 >> 
 >> Are we all obliged in some unspoken way to sever contact with friends 
 >> who have fallen foul of the law, a situation which must arise many times 
 >> per day across a population such as the UK or the USA? 
 >> 
 >> If we do sever contact and treat (former) friends with hateful disdain, 
 >> why are we doing it? 
 >> 
 >> As part of their punishment? To make ourselves feel somehow worthy? To 
 >> virtue-signal to others? 
 > 
 > Is your tolerance at all subjective like most people; would you 
 > maintain your friendship, for example, with a pedophile who was 
 > convicted of having sex with infant children?. 
  
 That would have to depend - crucially - upon the length and depth of the 
 acquaintance. It would be difficult to cut off a relative, especially a 
 member of one's own nuclear family (whether the one one grew up in or 
 one's spouse or child). 
  
 Someone known only from work (as a colleague) or perhaps down the local 
 pub, maybe less so. 
  
 PS: Why use the American spelling? 
  
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