[Superman]

If the previous thread you're referencing is the one I am thinking of, I cited court cases in which CEO's were prosecuted for failures in their duties of care and loyalty. I meant it when I said that corporations are legally required to have no more conscience than is necessary to maintain sufficient community goodwill in order to maximize profits. That is their sole agenda. Maximizing profits. While I notice that some people imagine corporations to have hearts and souls and the welfare of civic communities in mind, I also notice beliefs in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and unicorns. Similar.

That said, in this thread I am somewhat just playing Devil's Advocate (certainly an accurate term in this instance). I like to do that. I like to be the guy who says "Wait a minute.....is there only one way of looking at this and have all the facts been incorporated into the discussion." I don't disagree with you. Yes, a travesty and a tragedy seems to have occurred. And yes, it appears Paterno could have done more.

Crying out for his lynching, or even casting aspersions about my moral code, might be tempting and fun (particularly for people who just love to BLAME BLAME BLAME), but I continue to suspect it shortcuts the actual facts in this case. In other words, while I see everyone's condemnation of Paterno (which, again, may be substantially justified), I also see much, much greater failures by several others in this story. Perhaps the most glaring is McQueary's failure to march into that shower and stop a rape, then call police. At an absolute, bare frickin' minimum. Most of us would have had to tell the police that Sandusky was lying on the shower floor unconscious. That was the first of several failures, not counting Sandusky's horrific behavior.