By changing the law we have already exonerated him- just as we have exonerated all the witches we hung and all the kids we transported for stealing loaves of bread.
I don't know; a comprehensive apology to all the men who were ever prosecuted under this particular unjust law—some of whom will still, unlike Turing, be alive to hear it—would be a good thing by me.
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Date: 2012-02-09 04:44 pm (UTC)I don't know; a comprehensive apology to all the men who were ever prosecuted under this particular unjust law—some of whom will still, unlike Turing, be alive to hear it—would be a good thing by me.