11-20-2021, 06:14 PM
In all seriousness, I think the outcome was pretty inevitable regardless of my opinion of the kid on trial. It will be interesting to see f Rittenhouse truly wants to put this behind him, as his attorney claims, and if he actually "wishes none of it ever happened".
He has a choice of either staying in the far right hero spotlight, or moving on and starting a productive life. It would go a long way for everyone watching IMO if, first of all, the media and the left would let him move on and go away without harassment, and secondly if he himself opted for a more private life after the trial. I have no idea if he's sincere about what his lawyer states, but his outings with the Trump mobs don't indicate that to be the case.
Even so, age changes mindsets, and time might make him fell a bit differently about what he did when he reaches the grown man stage of his life. Killing people isn't a joke when it comes to someone's mental health, justified or not. I think it would be a huge mistake for him as a person to try and live off of the incident that made him a household name. No matter how much the right may coddle him, he's going to have to reckon with his true thoughts on what went down at some point.
He has a choice of either staying in the far right hero spotlight, or moving on and starting a productive life. It would go a long way for everyone watching IMO if, first of all, the media and the left would let him move on and go away without harassment, and secondly if he himself opted for a more private life after the trial. I have no idea if he's sincere about what his lawyer states, but his outings with the Trump mobs don't indicate that to be the case.
Even so, age changes mindsets, and time might make him fell a bit differently about what he did when he reaches the grown man stage of his life. Killing people isn't a joke when it comes to someone's mental health, justified or not. I think it would be a huge mistake for him as a person to try and live off of the incident that made him a household name. No matter how much the right may coddle him, he's going to have to reckon with his true thoughts on what went down at some point.
