No imagination required

Posted Nov 20, 2014 19:00 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Sorry, but no. by drago01
Parent article: Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson

To illustrate it with an extreme example imagine someone that people know as being a nice person goes and kills people. The latest action will surely overshadow what he did in the past.

It doesn't take much imagination, given that one prominent Linux developer was convicted of killing his wife. A fair number of people were willing to defend him when there was still a serious question of his guilt, but he quickly became an unperson once he confessed.