"How much in society should any of us be held liable today when we've lived a good life, an upstanding life by all accounts, and then something that maybe is an arguable issue, took place in high school? Should that deny us chances later in life?"
Fleischer, a former spokesman for President George W. Bush, raised that question Monday on Fox "News" about allegations of long-ago sexual misdeeds that have upended the confirmation hearings of would-be Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He seemed to think he had posed a real moral puzzler.
As you are no doubt aware, Kavanaugh's alleged misdeed was actually a crime.