Kevin and Pat Williams, guilty or not?

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Originally Posted by FRPLG

You ingest something then you should know what it is. You eat a tomato you know it's a tomato. You eat a steak you know a cow gave it up for you. You take a little pill with 95 different ingredients then you are rolling the dice. Whose fault is it that you took the supplement? Your own. Whether it was on the label or not doesn't much matter to me in the sense that you should be absolved from the consequences of ingesting a banned substance when you did it unknowingly. It is banned. Ignorance isn't bliss and it isn't an excuse. You drive down the road and the speed limits changes and you get a ticket because you didn't notice it had changed then you got to pay up. I think we just look at things slightly different.

FRPLG I think your taking this a bit far. These guys like most other people today do a highly specialized job. They play football at a high level, in doing that they learn a few things about nutrition- that doesn't mean they should be held to the standard of a doctor. They learn about mental toughness and visualizing an outcome- this doesn't mean they are psychics. Even your analogy isn't accurate, it is not akin to not "noticing" the speed limit changed it would be if there were no speed limit posted on the entire stretch of highway. Rules and Laws in any fair society must be posted for all to see. Otherwise we all become paranoid and or litigious, that in my opinion is not the message the NFL should be sending here. Accepting personal responsibility is one very human thing expecting perfection is not.