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It is simply unfathomable that so many prominent people knew about Epstein’s activities and simply turned a blind eye to him. Similarly to the sexual assault scandals at USC, Penn State and US Gymnastics, the Catholic Church, etc.

People know but action is only taken after years or decades of awareness.

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I think it's a good barometer for the relationship between money and ethics/law: if you have enough of the former, many people will ignore the latter when dealing with you.

In my opinion, this is one reason why massive wealth inequality is bad. It creates a caste of people who are often are immune to the legal system unless they do something sufficiently horrific.

OK, but this isn't an example of it. It has never been against the law to know about a crime and not report it. You only get in trouble for that in totalitarian countries.

Is it "totalitarian" for members of a society to socially castigate people who knowingly associated with child sex traffickers?

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