Наказание сурово, но справедливо ли?

Английская журналистка Barbara Ellen пишет ... do we seriously think that a female teacher sleeping with a male pupil is on a par with a male teacher sleeping with a girl pupil? I don't. And neither, I'd wager, would most 15-year-old boys.

Меня, наверное, забросают тапочками, но я с ней скорее согласен, чем не.

George Monbiot on ClimateGate

В порядке введения, замечу, что Monbiot не просто сторонник теории глобального потепления, а яростный борец против потепления, автор довольно известной книги под назаванием Heat. Степень его предвзятости легко оценить, например по следущему высказыванию:

The greatest tragedy here is that despite many years of outright fabrication, fraud and deceit on the part of the climate change denial industry, documented in James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore's brilliant new book Climate Cover-up, it is now the climate scientists who look bad. By comparison to his opponents, Phil Jones is pure as the driven snow. Hoggan and Littlemore have shown how fossil fuel industries have employed "experts" to lie, cheat and manipulate on their behalf.

С учетом таких позиций, другие его мысли выглядят особенно впечатляюще:
Pretending that this isn't a real crisis isn't going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We'll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again...When it comes to his handling of Freedom of Information requests, Professor Jones might struggle even to use a technical defence. If you take the wording literally, in one case he appears to be suggesting that emails subject to a request be deleted, which means that he seems to be advocating potentially criminal activity. Even if no other message had been hacked, this would be sufficient to ensure his resignation as head of the unit.

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