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What do you expect his friends to do?
Given his behaviour was common knowledge, maybe not be his friend?
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Just feels that making a moral judgement on this via twitter might be shaky ground.
Perhaps I'm sensitive to this because a friend of mine was convicted of murder in my younger years and he was always nice to me. He was an exemplary friend. Right until he killed somebody. It took some time, maybe even years, for me to process the facts.
But fair dos, I totally understand that his friends expressing positive sentiments about a dead alleged rapist can be construed as diminishing the seriousness of his behaviour.
Stonehedge
I don't see "he was always nice to me" as bullshit. Its a reality. I assume plenty of rapists, paedophiles, murderers etc are nice to a lot of people. Seems quite important to capture this rather than dismiss him as a monster. Feels like quite an important message for people looking to safeguard love ones too. Being a good friend or a nice guy doesn't mean they aren't a potential rapist.
What do you expect his friends to do? Tweet "glad the rapist cunt is dead. He was always a monster. Wore a big rapist sign round his neck"?