Well, okay, but you've just appointed yourself and those who think like you as some sort of ancillary justice system, meting out punishments that are as draconian, if not more so, as the criminal system, based apparently on your intuitions about what "sounds about right" to you. Sorry man, but I just don't trust you to do that. Even less so when you're brimming with self-righteousness like you are on this topic.
Sexual misconduct generally, as an issue, affects society. Louis CK's career continuing doesn't, really. He's not Donald Trump, making day to day decisions that hurt thousands of people; he's a stand-up comic. I can understand caring about the issue, I just don't get why people think that their fervent desire to see someone suffer (in this case someone who's admitted wrongdoing and claims to be contrite, but really, anyone) somehow stands as evidence of your morality.
And yeah, I didn't argue that it was okay, or that bosses inappropriately touching employees was okay, so I'm not sure why you're trying to put that on me. I didn't say anything about the merits of the case, other than "people seem to have a variety of intuitions about how bad his behaviour is". Which... they do.
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