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There’s a simple anthropic principle at play here. The inability to contemplate our own individual unimportance in the bigger scheme of things cause us, collectively, to gape in horror at celebrity meltdowns. And when a celebrity really steps outside the law (I submit to you The People of the State of California vs. O.J. Simpson and The People of the State of California vs. Robert Blake) we really begin to salivate for details. It is, as Ian McEwan wrote in “Saturday”, “a human complication beyond the reach of morals.”