That’s factually false. Nobody who matters in any meaningful way wants to “destroy” Northam. He needs to resign as governor because he can’t effectively govern a diverse state after this. But nobody is saying he can’t continue to be a physician or to do other public service.
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And the question of "who he is" - well, in my view he certainly isn't the person he was when he was 18. Would you want to be held responsible now for your behavior as an 18 year old? I would consider it a travesty of justice if I were held accountable from my teenage behavior.
Back then, if social media had been around, I would absolutely have been part of dogpiling mobs. I don't think I should be held accountable for that now. My 18 year old self is gone. (Similarly, I shouldn't get any credit now for the good things I did then.)
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Have you considered the fact that both you and
@Metamagician are commenting on an event in a country in which you don’t live? That your understanding of the context may be crucially lacking because of that? Also, he wasn’t 18 when he finished medical school. He was 25. -
That's not an argument. It's a rhetorical move. Also, there's plenty of reason to suppose that living in a country does not give people a good appreciation of these sorts of issues. See, for example, 'The nature of belief systems in mass publics' by Converse (an early classic).
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