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Originally Posted by molson
There's SO many things that happened in our parents' and grandparents' generations that we shouldn't repeat. Let's just start with racial and sexual preference tolerances. Nobody's willing to be so forgiving when those are the attitudes someone grew up with and retained.
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I agree 100% that we shouldn't repeat mistakes. The problem becomes that in many communities and families these aren't seen as mistakes. These things are seen as being the way things simply are.
So I think it is a non-starter to say everyone should "simply know better".
I hate to be seen as someone defending a child abuser, but these things are simply more complicated than many people want to admit. Adrian Peterson should be suspended and maybe should do some time behind bars but he should also be taught where he went wrong and hopefully he can see that what he grew up knowing as "right" simply isn't.