I’m kinda with you on the due process part but lose you on the “moral equivalency”component of the argument.
Meaning, Ray Rice doing a round house left hook on his 100 lb (or thereabouts) wife that could have easily killed her is, at least in my mind, a major felonious attack.
Solo and her sister and her nephew getting in a ruckus at her sisters house, with everyone being essentially the same in the physical strength dept, and no significant injuries, to me is small change compared to what Rice did.
So, back to “due process”, Solo does not have 10-20 million bucks to hire lawyers to stretch “due process” out to the “un recognizable” . Ray Rice does. So, to me, the NFL, trying to rescue its well deserved tattered reputation, is within it’s rights to try and keep this felon in waiting off the field on Sunday afternoon national television.
I would let penniless Solo (by comparison to Mr Rice) play and I would suspend Rice, which, I guess, is a long round about way of saying I agree with what currently is going on in both cases.
I appreciate what you are saying, and see merit in your statements.
I was coming at it from the standpoint of people saying that we need to have “zero tolerance” for certain things, and the fact that domestic violence has now become the issue of the day in the “zero tolerance” area.
And was thinking that “zero tolerance” should apply to all who are in a domestic violence situation, if we are to be intellectually honest in applying such a standard.
I guess I take issue with the whole “zero tolerance” standard, and really think we should judge these on a case by case basis.