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Originally Posted by cannon7
Yawn. Miller was punished for what he did and I agree with the punishment. He now has an opportunity to be a better person and I won't stand in his way. But it is you who wants the raking over the coals to never see an end.
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Why now? What was stopping him from being a better person 4 years ago directly after the incident? What was stopping him when he was in the court with his buddy who showed remorse? What about 2 years after when he was a 16 year old beginning to understand the impact he had on his victims? Why not when he turned 18 ten months ago? He's been a legal adult for 10 months and never took the opportunity to reach out to his victim. 10 months he was an adult, there's no longer the "he's just a kid" when he actively didn't try to make amends as an adult. Every day for 10 months he chose not to reach out.
But, I think you've relaxed your position a bit. Now you're saying he could be become a better person? Not that he is? We can agree there finally, but that still puts the onus on him, as an adult, to start making amends. He didn't want to give an in-person apology, maybe this will be the kick in the ass that will prompt him to reach out to his victims and even if just for show, being confronted with how he has impacted his victims might finally get him on that course of being a good person.
But no, at 18 years old and refusing to apologize to his victims while apologizing to random NHL teams show what he is as an adult, not what he was as a kid.