I agree 100%.
But it would make SUCH a great film or novel plot if someone in his situation, hated around the world, chased down and imprisoned, if that fictional character was totally the victim of a frameup. Some patriot or rebel who pisses off Big Brother, perhaps, and is given the deluxe frame job. Imagine being screamed at in every public sitation as a killer, if you were innocent? If what the public believed was 180* around from the truth?
Great plot for a novel.
In Plato’s Republic, if I remember correctly, there is a discussion of whether its better to be a just man hated and despised as an unjust man, OR instead an unjust man loved and revered as a just man. Its one of those “bottom line” life questions.
Ha! That is a good idea for a novel or movie. Alfred Hitchcock did it with Saboteur and North By Northwest. What’s kinda funny, I’m watching this TV show right now about Natalee Hollaway, and what really strikes me is how her mother is probably not too different than Joran’s parents. The Hollaway family is very well-to-do, and the parents appear to have a laissez faire attitude towards their daughter. I have a feeling Natalee was spoiled, as well, and probably had a feeling that nothing bad would happen to her either.