100% agree. I think he shows all the signs of someone whose rage is building as he comes to grips with the reality of what this worthless scumbucket did to his daughters, and how he failed in his parental duty to protect them.
Of course you have to keep in mind that SJW's live in a fantasy binary world where everything is black and white, right and wrong, good and evil and there is no such thing as empathy, context, nuance or extenuating circumstances.
A bunch of sad-arse bastards IMO
Hmmm. I'm not absolutely certain, but I think smartcooky just called me an SJW. It's not a category I'm usually include in. "Sad-arse bastard", though, is probably appropriate.
Be that as it may, that's not what I'm here for. I think that you, smartcooky, are guilty of the black and white, binary, reasoning that you are accusing SJWs of practicing. On the one side is Larry Nassar. He is evil. Therefore, everything he does is evil, and everyone who opposes him is good. His victims are certainly good, as is anyone who sympathizes with the victims. Those who question the motives or purity of the victims, though, must be on the evil side. At least, that's the impression I get from your recent posts.
I don't see things as quite so binary. Larry Nassar had literally hundreds of victims. That is not the record of one evil man. That's the record of a man who is allowed to practice his evil in the midst of people who are good, but naïve, and some people who are themselves evil, but perhaps to a lesser extent, and a lot of people who did not intend to do evil, but did it anyway.
The old saying says that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. In our secular world, that saying is often misunderstood, because people don't really believe in Hell. They tend to think of "Hell" in the saying as "something bad happened." However, the point of the saying was not just that bad things might happen when you try to do good. It was that you could end up committing sin, i.e. genuine evil, by wanting a desirable outcome so much that you do the wrong thing, by which I mean the morally wrong thing, not just a mistake, in pursuit of that worthy goal.
Before this all shakes out, I think that there will be people in that category found guilty in civil court, and perhaps a few even in criminal court. These were people who had a specific, legal, responsibility to protect children in their care, and instead allowed Nassar unfettered access to his victims.
I think there's another set of people who enabled Nassar. These are the ones who refused to hear what the victims told them. The ones that were so driven by the pursuit of success that they refused to see what was in front of their faces. Those people are the ones who took the road paved with good intentions.
In "The Emperor's New Clothes", the tailors were certainly evil, but another set of "bad guys" in that story can be found in the crowd, who refused to step forward for fear of being called fools.
So, to get back to the original point, no, I do not see a black and white situation here. I see lots of room for fault that goes well beyond Larry Nassar, with some being stained to a lesser or greater degree.
