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Originally Posted by cannon7
I guarantee that if I dug into your past that I could find something you said or did that you were ashamed of. Why? Because that's a part of growing up. It doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you human.
But let's say you're morally superior to the rest of us. Congratulations. Perhaps you could be more understanding and empathetic of the rest of us who aren't perfect like you? Oh shoot. There goes that moral superiority...turns out understanding and empathy are moral virtues. Go figure.
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You probably could. And it's unlikely you'd find with most people a history of seven straight years of intimidation, assault, and racism.
This is the issue I have with your posts. Not that this kid is beyond saving, because he's not. Not that this is his fault alone, because his parents share blame. Not that he might have changed, because he might have, but again the burden of proof is on him, and when neither the victim and his family or NHL GMs trust that he's shown the proof, those are red flags that shouldn't just be ignored. The issue, is that you keep saying this is "part of growing up" and that it doesn't make someone a bad person, just a human. But that's wrong. Bullying someone for seven years and doing the things he did makes him a bad person. This is not a typical part of growing up. Maybe you were a bully like him when you were younger and you changed, good for you, but bullies are ####ty people, being one is not just "part of growing up."
And this mindless need to play the victim here, about how anyone being critical of a bully is pretending to be morally superior. Get over it already. Nobody is perfect, but most people can not include what this kid did in their history. This is not typical. It is not to be lumped in with all the things one might be ashamed of.
This kid just got drafted to the NHL, safe to say, he's going to be just fine if he changed. If he didn't, it's on him. But to just wave blanket forgiveness with the red flags present? I don't know. How many people jumped to the "just a kid" defence of the kid who shot out the window of his car and hit a German tourist? I saw a whole lot more from the "put him away for good" and outrage over his sentence being light because he was a kid, than I do for a kid who tortured someone for seven straight years.