[Fightin Whitey]

Have you ever worked for or with an serial adulterer, a chronic liar, a cheat, a megalomaniac, a secret drinker?

Those traits, those vices, are all entirely legal.

I don't believe that a man's life and work are entirely separate or separable, Joe. I think that, almost inevitably, virtue rewards and vice destroys.

To what extent that applies to Richard Branson and his work, I don't know. Maybe some around him do.

[Smokin' Joe]

What you just. don't. get. Is that it is not the man I admire, but the attempt (and if they do not give up, the) accomplishment so many others are working on. You would condemn their efforts regardless of their nature while you condemn Branson, and in doing so wish failure and death on others.

Considering that none is without sin, should I revile all, even the most noble efforts of humankind?

Do you refuse to dress warmly because much of the information on hypothermia came from experiments carried out on camp inmates?

Do you refuse medical care because the doctor has been divorced?

At what level of sinfulness would you approve of what level of actions for the benefit of humankind?

Would you tell the fire department they can't put out your house because you heard they were at a bachelor party at a titty bar?

Whitey, how you live is up to you, but it is the accomplishment in this instance I laud, not the personal habits of the person running the show.