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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
See but, this isn’t what anyone is saying. Nobody is saying he shouldn’t be able to have a job or that he has to go to jail. People have issue with him being given a chance at a luxury profession. Making the NHL is a dream and a privilege, not a right or a need. There is also very little difference between most tweeners, so there are literal thousands of players you could give a chance to.
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Either you hold the behavior of children against them forever or you don't, if he buys a winning lotto ticket do we then refuse to pay him the prize,
do we refuse to pay anyone the prize who did something questionable as a kid?
If we are going to accept that we forgive kids for their stupidity that forgiveness is based on the idea that as kids we don't have the rational capacity to make complex ethical choices, we forgive children because we do not judge them as competent in the way an adult is, if this is the basis of our forgiveness then logically (assuming he is saying and doing the things now that show he has matured and realizes the error of his ways) then the forgiveness should be total