Rich and Almost Always Unpunished

One of the latest news today is that Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife Brooke Mueller had a restraining order issued against him following his threat to “cut her head off, put it in a box and send it to her mother”. It’s shocking, if it’s true and not just a rumor. Let’s assume it’s true.

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It won’t be the first time Mr Sheen acts like this and certainly won’t be the last given his recent “activities”. But bypassing such a threat is safe to call indecent and dangerous.

Mr Sheen has been known for his bad behavior for years. Many people justify him with the excuse of drug and alcohol abuse and often recommend therapy and rehab. And the story always ends to this point. It would be useful if cognitive and behavioral experts take some more time to consider what would happen in case therapy and rehab didn’t do the job. Often celebrities like Charlie tend to believe that they’re entitled to brutalize people around them and this will not be punished because they’re so rich they can buy any defence they need. And acting out never stops. If a person with history of violence, drug and alcohol abuse is unstable, such person can easily lose control and do something even more terrible. This is the most important issue to take into account.

It’s a common notion in Hollywood that celebrities are haughty and capricious and Mr Sheen does anything to confirm that. Any other celebrities’ attempts to prove this notion wrong gets blown away when someone like Mr Sheen makes another naughty move. Everything spins around like a neverending cycle – one tries to show how good they’re, and right after that another one proves them wrong by threatening or beating their spouse, destroying a hotel room, hitting a reporter, etc.

Everything’s up to one’s consciousness and morality issues. The fact that celebrities are being loved, adored and admired for their talent and entertainment qualities suggests that they must at least keep decent behavior in public. Their whole life is public, nothing can remain hidden. In the spotlights 24/7. Besides most of them are role models to millions of people who desperately want to be like them. Any kind of indecent behavior should not be tolerated neither by Hollywood management nor the fans. Also more severe measures and punishments should be applied to “bad” celebrities for the purposes of prevention or just to teach them a lesson. As long as there are movies, show business, huge investments and devoted audience, there always will be stars. They must know that everything they do leaves its foot print in history of their career and field of occupation. As long as they never forget this, let’s hope there won’t be many more cases like the above mentioned. Because generally there’s nothing wrong to choose a celebrity to be a role model. But let’s choose them according to their good deeds and not because we love bad boys. Bad boys are always trouble. Good guys may be boring sometimes but they’re worth loving, as long as they can teach us how to live properly, decently and morally.

For the sake of all great things Charlie Sheen had done as a tremendous actor (which he actually is), we can only hope he’s capable of changing. Even if it costs him a lot of trouble. Because Charlie is worth the effort to work with. I believe he’s a broken toy that can be fixed. Otherwise he’s facing long periods of rehab treatment and therapies, as well as no filming contracts for a long time. Hollywood industry may soon face losing one of its best performers of all times.