Thanks for the comment. The comparison to Marlilyn Manson is disingenuous at best. While he has his own set of issues, he continues to be completely without remorse or even to admit he has done anything wrong.

Also, I disagree with your assessment of mental illness and who should not be allowed to put their thoughts into the world. Having a mental illness does not automatically make one's thoughts some kind of virus capable of infecting others. This mentality is itself toxic to mental health advocacy.

While yes, it is always essential to be mindful of the victims of crimes, just because someone has done awful things, they are not somehow embodied only by those awful things. They are HUMAN.

Since I myself am an indirect survivor of a home that had to live with a predator, if I can understand this about people, and advocate for some kind of ability to be redeemed, then it shouldn't be impossible for others, especially those who haven't had to deal with such issues.

Further, Nesset isn't even the worst example of this sort of criminality in that issue of the magazine. Another of the poets is serving time for rape of someone under 16. Yet, there are no petitions to remove that poem.