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Like the rest of us, however, she was also a victim of original sin, which is a more everyday affair than snakes in gardens or forbidden apples. She treated the young woman she hired as a sub-human species fashioned to serve her own interests, much as her father treated his employees. None of this is to deny that Ghislaine Maxwell is a despicable predator who richly deserves her prison sentence.

Suggested reading The enabling of Ghislaine Maxwell When Margaret Thatcher announced that society didn’t exist, she did so in the English language, which belongs to an individual only because it belongs in the first place to a particular civilisation.

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Yet we wouldn’t have the concept of freedom in the first place, or know how to practise it, if we didn’t live in society. Freedom is as absolute in the judicial system as it is in the market place, and appeals to social conditions can be left to fancy-pants sociologists. The fact that there are degrees of responsibility goes unacknowledged. To point out that a lot of criminals were deprived and unloved as children is to sell out to determinism. It is this belief which puts so many of its citizens on death row. That you’re responsible for absolutely everything you do is part of American folklore.

The United States, true to its Puritan heritage, is a deep believer in voluntarism, regarding the will as supreme. Most addicts are aware of this possibility, but it rarely stops them from drinking or shooting up, just as nobody stops being a radical Islamist because somebody tells them they should. You embrace well-being because it’s enjoyable, not just because you’re likely to die if you don’t. Instead of a deep desire for heroin, you begin to feel an even deeper desire to be well. Far from struggling against what we want, the will has to plug into your deepest wishes if it is to work. On this view, to will to do something is to feel drawn to it - even, in the end, to love it. By contrast, for traditional thinkers such as St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, the will is more a form of desire than a kind of power. It is a matter of tensed sinews and gritted teeth.

It is thus that the idea of will power comes into existence. It is only in the modern period that we start thinking of the will as a heroic force, one which overcomes our baser inclinations. Suggested reading Ghislaine Maxwell's guilty soul You don’t need to be a card-carrying Freudian to see that the man she pimped for, Jeffrey Epstein, was a surrogate father whose affection she could probably never depend on. She referred to the young women she exploited as trash. Other people were born to do her bidding, while she herself was immune to accountability. Ghislaine was born with every disadvantage: extraordinary privilege, limitless resources, endless leisure, posh friends, inborn entitlement, and a repulsive beast of a father who seems to have bullied and indulged her by turns. Could the child of such a monster ever stand a chance? Even so, I would have ploughed doggedly on, convinced that this was the most effective way to get my client off. Some jurors might have fainted, while a few hardened police officers might have rushed out of court in order to throw up. It’s true that the sheer Dorian Gray-like loathsomeness of such a portrait might have caused a stir.

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If I were Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, a job only slightly more desirable than being Prince Andrew’s valet, I would have spent most of my time at her trial painting a picture of her father.

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