Hello all,
...society needs to ensure that the blame is placed on the correct individual.........without allowing excuses !
I was listening to a conversation at work about Ray Rice knocking out his girlfriend. One person started to say...well...she was coming at him aggressively and.......................I looked over at the person. "Are you kidding me?" That person was a middle aged woman. How does society get things right when women make excuses for men beating women.
If you think society in general is a mess about this, try looking more closely at athletes, especially professional athletes. It's screwed up mightily. Take a very recent comparative example. Jonathan Papelbon of the Phillies fails to save a game and the fans get after him. Papelbon grabs his dick in the face of the crowd to fire back an insult. The MLB suspends him for 7 games costing him about $500,000. Adrian Peterson beats a 4 year-old across his frontal private parts with 14 to 15 shots of a stick leaving very ugly injuries. Peterson gets suspended 1 game with pay, then gets to come back because he had a revelation and regret during one session of counseling. LESSON: break the rules of the game and hard punishment. But beat the kids, women, threaten to torture or kill others, steal, use guns, force sex, slaughter animals and it only matters if the public becomes aware and what level of outrage there is.
It's now known that Peterson scarred another 4 year-old son above an eye with another shot he gave a defenseless child, yet currently he's playing with no loss of pay at all. Sure a lot of people are outraged, but not so much for the home town fan. If he's your child beater, rapist, animal killer the excuses flow like a river because...GAMES and WINS and BETTING LINES and ENTERTAINMENT are more important than the lives of PEOPLE.
I agree the cycle will not be broken because society does not know how to set up priorities to achieve it.
Merlot