u/EmptySomeone

To start, I’m not saying Jacob is definitely redeemed, and many of the following points may be disproven, but people acting like he definitely isn’t and couldn’t possibly be in the future makes me disappointed in the response of a leftist community, where rehabilitation over punishment is an important ideology. People can still be uncomfortable with his past actions and choose to not support him of course, but I don’t think it’s fair to say he hasn’t at least given off the appearance of rehabilitation.

If what we’ve been told is true, he discussed what he did with his victim, admitted guilt, cooperated with the investigation, and accepted punishment for it. Since then, he (by some accounts) has been honest with partners about what he’a done and expressed extreme remorse, and has not recommitted anything resembling SA. He did not tell people he worked with about it, which is arguably the worst thing he’s done since then, but it’s hard to imagine telling people the worst thing you’ve ever done when you don’t know them that well, and when it all but guarantees it results in an immediate blacklist. Still, that doesn’t make it right.

Some people say people who’ve committed SA shouldn’t be able to become a content creator, but I disagree. I don’t see it different from any other job, and I don’t see why that should specifically be prohibited for someone who’s committed a crime to do. People critique him becoming a content creator, but the thing is, he inarguably used his platform to spread a positive message. He did not use that position to spread hate or find more victims, he used it in part to speak against his past behavior. If he understands what he did was wrong, faced consequences, severely regrets it, hasn’t done anything like it in 10+ years, and has spoken out against it in public, what else can we realistically expect someone to do to redeem themselves, or are we really just of the opinion they shouldn’t be redeemed?

I’m talking about the bird in the nest, in the first garden, sea turtle second, etc. Are you able to merge them? If so, do you get a higher level creature, or some kind of other reward?