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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
You're not affording him the opportunity to straighten out though, you've been acting like it's a done deal and it's time to move on while his victim still talks about how painful it was. You've done everything to pass blame and excuse his actions in my opinion while not realizing that he hasn't done the bare minimum to earn that second chance.
Since my first post I said it's important to give second chances. But giving him the opportunity to straighten his life out should have start with him truly apologizing for his actions to his victim and seeking forgiveness. He hasn't made that first step, therefore in my mind he is the one foregoing his second chance, not us for not automatically granting it.
Not that it should matter what any of us think about him. No one is lobbying for him to be banned from the NHL or face further legal punishments. We just think that he's a ###### and won't care (or in some cases be pleased) if he doesn't make the big show and earn millions of dollars. And if he didn't want us to think he was a ######, he could have reached out to make amends but he doesn't, so it's obvious to me he doesn't want us to think he's a good person.
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You're sure attributing a lot of intent to this young man absent of evidence. Neither of us know what he did or didn't do to make or attempt to make amends. We can take the victim's mother at her word while at the same time recognizing that it is only one side of the story. Doesn't make anything more or less "obvious" to an objective observer.
It's this kind of thinking that gets us into trouble. We think we know more than we do. We mistake our emotional response for righteousness.