How is this helping your argument any? I don't get it. You essentially just made the case that it doesn't matter which job he goes back to. And I'm arguing that maybe it does. So if I think it's probably a bad call he gets to re-enter the film writing community (in fact, he never left it) and you think it doesn't even matter at all, I don't... I don't get your stance here, basically.
So this is less about what's actually happening, and more about you entertaining a fictional scenario in which you'd like to believe that if you were a sexual offender and a serial dickhead to something like half the people you ever came in contact with, your friends would still hook you up like nothing had happened.
Why is that lack of personal responsibility on the part of either your friends or yourself a positive step on the road to forgiveness in this what-if that you're entertaining?
Why is it that the possibility of keeping your life together means there are no other means of doing so outside the single avenue that provided you all the opportunities you fucked up in the first place?
Why would you not want to try a new road at that point? Why should everyone be obligated to just... let you back into your lane like that?
I guess my point is that this is what the guy knows. It's not just a job to him. It's his passion and his life. Could he get a job flipping burgers, stocking shelves, or whatever to pay the bills? Absolutely.
But if we're assuming Devin was actually taking accountability for his actions, going to rehab, etc, then I don't think it's far fetched for a good friend in said industry to be like "Hey. I know you and I think you're a good person. I see what you're trying to do. So let me help you out." And you could argue that not having to deal with the added stress of learning a new career, going back to school, etc, can help better focus on his own self improvement.
No one is obligated to do anything. Tim did it because he's a friend. No one has to read what Devin rights, or go to movies at the Drafthouse, etc.
I'm trying not to be too dismissive here, but people seem to be acting like no one gives a shit about what actually happened and Tim is just laughing and being like "Yea come on back! Of course! Who cares!?"
Devin is, by various accounts, taking responsibility. Staying or leaving your profession isn't the only way you do that. And making either decision doesn't mean you have or you haven't.
Anyways, I've said my peace. Everyone is justified in how they want to react to this as well. I'm not trying to argue against you guys, just explain my own view.
