Exactly
Society needs to be bigger than the individual. This board is a great example as to why.
- Mentalorgasm5
Have you followed out what that historically leads to?
That's the opposite of what we need.
In this situation, the rights of an individual were trampled by another. Historically societies that don't focus on the individual allow trampling on the weakest because the net impact to society is negligible.
If the reports are accurate that he displayed 0 remorse and just went on an apology tour around the time of the draft, I could understand the position of the team.
I don't know the details so it's tough for me to cast aspersion. A couple of journalists put their integrity on the line for this. If they are proven to be wrong it could cost them significantly. Despite people wanting to call it "cancel culture" we'll see what his response is to this.
Had he displayed remorse; would society's reaction be different? That I'm not too sure of. But, we don't know for certain.