Redskins Signing Adrian Peterson

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

My point is not that with enough elements I might approve or be less disgusted by what he did. I might not, what he did is un-excusable under any circumstances.



My points are:



1) I don't think it is up to me to decide if he paid enough or not for what he did



2) I don't think people should be reduced to one thing they did, because:

a) people can be multiple things, good and bad at the same time

b) people can change



3) I don't think people should be eternally and publicly bashed for something they did, especially once they paid for it, because it creates a vicious circle and I don't think it helps people becoming better versions of themselves, thus neither does it help a society becoming better.



4) I don't think not ever being allowed to do your job again should be part of any legal sentence, unless that job is a political one.



5) I have absolutely no idea if any of the Redskins players are good people or not, having met and discussed with none of them. I root for this team, thus for the football performances of its players, not for their souls.



Now, I'm not denying your right to not root for somebody for any reason of your choice.

I'm just expressing my discomfort with today's common habit of everybody voicing opinions about an act and the person committing that act, without knowing a lot about neither of the two.

I agree with an awful lot of what you are saying here. However, and it is a big however, we do know for a fact that he beat a four year old all over his body and on his nut sack with a stick so bad that he needed hospitalization. That is not opinion. That is not conjecture. That is a fact. So as for your very last paragraph, well that is simply not the case. There is just nothing else that you could tell me about AP or the incident that would make that less evil of an act. I do not need to know more about the man to better form my opinion of how i feel about what he did.