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Offline segnosaur

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He was giving an honest picture of his life as an adolescent in high school and a near-adolescent in college.
That's the issue... many people don't think he was giving an 'honest picture of HIS life as an adolescent'. His... "unusual" (i.e. nobody else in the world uses them) definitions... for example the 'Renate Alumnus' or 'Devils Triangle' description. His attempts to minimize his alcohol consumption and its effects on him (multiple witnesses have described him as a rather 'mean drunk', which he conveniently never mentioned. Just that he "liked beer").
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The centerpiece of the Jewish religion is the process of atonement...
To 'atone' he has to admit there was an issue.

If he issued a statement saying "when I was younger I drank too much and acted badly, and I apologize. I am a better person now" then its possible that he really is interested in atonement. But instead he went on the warpath... suggesting there was some sort of Clinton conspiracy, attacking the senators that were questioning him. That's not the attitude for someone seeking 'atonement'. That's someone who was a jerk in the past, and who is still a jerk.

Heck, if nothing else, the Clinton Conspiracy claims he made during the hearing should disqualify him, since it would call his ability to remain impartial into question.

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But forgiveness by the victim is a somewhat different issue. In a link on Interpersonal Relationships (link), the writer posits, I think correctly, that as a general matter a victim must forgive in order to receive absolution from his own sins:
Which would only be relevant if 1) there was a god, and 2) that god actually subscribe to the same ideas.

There is more evidence that Ford is telling the truth and that Kavanaugh is lying than there is for your god.

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The point being that long-ago transgressions, even if they actually happened (which is in doubt here) should not be a factor if the person has no recent behavior of this kind.
Once again....

- Whether a past transgression should be a factor depends on the type of transgression and just what the potential 'job' is

- Its all irrelevant because Kavanaugh's failure to own up to his mistakes and his probable lies/cover ups mean that his transgressions are not 'long ago'... they are part of his current personality.