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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
So what if he was a child? He’s an adult now. Doing something heinous as a child doesn’t excuse you as an adult for not doing right by your victim.
Again, why is it controversial that people not want to wish well until he, as an adult, does right by his victim?
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I don't know how old some of you are. But from here, an 18 year old is still a kid. Legally an adult, sure. But still in most other respects just a kid.
We sure expect a lot. On the pretense that if this kid delivered on every demand that we'd forgive.
But we won't. He'll apologize. And it won't be enough. So he'll lose his scholarship. And that still won't be enough. So he'll be hounded in whatever junior league he tries to enter and lose that, too. And still it won't be enough. He'll end up working at Dunkin Donuts or something and lose that, too. He'll be pursued until we forget what we were outraged about in the first place.
And for what? Because he deserves it? No.
Because there are a lot of people in this world with empty lives and they need this to fulfill them.
But it never does. Nor can it. Rinse and repeat.