This thread is about those who let it continue.
Because we deal with one, doesn't mean we are condoning the other.
“those who let it continue.”
Wow.
In EVERY inner city there are intersections where drugs are openly dealt. EVERYONE knows about it. The City Government, the police, and literally thousands of others. It goes on unabated. Everyone knows and no one does a thing to stop it. Deaths due to OD are the result. Some of them are children.
How responsible, MORALLY, are “those that let it continue”?
EVERY UNIVERSITY in America gives a “wink and a nod” to underage drinking. Every year kids die. How responsible, are “those that let it continue”.
WE ALL KNOW that the internet is full of child pornography.
It has made life so much easier for pedophiles. What is being done about it? If we stand by, and do nothing, knowing about it, are WE “those that let it continue”?
Right is Right and Evil is Evil no matter how close one is to a situation. Not being as close to the situation is a sorry, lame-ass excuse.
Why did the Lord Jesus say to the men, fully confident that they were about to do the right thing and stone the adulterous woman, “Let Him without sin cast the first stone.” None did. The Lord tells the woman “GO, and sin no more.”
Is there a pecking order of who to forgive? I’ll confess I’m in no mood to forgive Sandusky. He must be held legally responsible for the rape he has committed. Paterno, McQueary, and the others need to be held legally responsible too. If this is the one time in life these men(outside of Sandusky) failed to do the right thing, does that mean they are forever to be despised and rejected? How, and can, they ever make things right?
There also is a much more consequential element involving Paterno and his staff not being discussed here.
There was a time, and I hope still remains, where collegiant football also taught the value of virtue, sportsmanship, volition and endurance in the face of adversity.
Adversity is inevitable, but leaders with virtue become winners when they persevere in their steadfast faith, regardless the worldly consequence.
I never had been a fan of Paterno, mainly because I sensed a lack of virtue in his performance of sportsmanship, but I also admit his team wasn’t one of my teams to cheer to victory,...so I may be jaundiced in my perception of his performance.
Maybe PSU can land a coach with virtue to turn the place around and after it develops new priorities can then return to insisting upon victory as well as virtue, but virtue first.