Yeah, I get it, she made a lot of money from being a hypocrite. But I can't help but have mixed feelings about this. I don't want people to rip on and disparage any single mother, even if she is incredibly well paid.

It's clear she doesn't get the ramifications of her actions, which is pretty consistent with someone her age and not surprising considering the "moral" rhetoric of her mom (and likely others).

If I knew it was only on the internet? I don't know, maybe make it open season. But she's still a kid, a single mom, with two kids. That's hard enough on its own, but I have to expect some idiot is going to find her in person and make her feel like the worst human being on earth.

And yeah, I know she was paid to give speeches that probably galvanized some other idiot to do the exact same to some poor girl outside an abortion clinic. That's not right.

I just am sick of the notion that we need to punish people, constantly. It used to be that if someone was an asshole, they were an asshole, and they paid the consequences of it. People would push them away, maybe they adjusted and maybe they didn't. But destroying their lives, or more importantly attacking their children, well I don't want any part of it.

I know lots of children of assholes (both gender of parents) who grew up to be amazing people, because they had shitty/hypocritical/demeaning/controlling parents, and they made the choice to be better than that.

I know this girl is a hypocrite, or made mistakes, but we don't have to put ourselves on the lowest level to feel vindicated, and we definitely don't need to demean her children to make good choices or support our beliefs.