[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by Lothar

So, how do you feel about an airline that allows careless maintenance to compromise safety, resulting in a plane crash. Individuals make those decisions and should be held accountable. The corporation is accountable for the loss and damages. If individuals act with negligence, they can be held accountable.

However, I have never seen an airline completely shut down and all its employees sent home because of a plane crash. The airline might get grounded until they can demonstrate safe operations, but that's not punitive.

I think sanctions should be reserved for the guilty. If a corporation cleans house and the offending parties are no longer present, what is the purpose of the sanctions? Damages and punitive damages paid by a corporation make sense. Who else would pay? But the "throw the baby out with the bath water" approach jettisons the best of what is left after the worst has already been removed.

The alternative is to punish the guilty and remove them from the organization. Replace them with people of character and encourage the rebuilding of the program in a way that restores its integrity. For those responsible, there should be no leniency. They must be held accountable for their actions.

First and foremost, the 14 years of criminal activity that was known by the staff to be occurring should never have happened. It is beyond comprehension that this occurred. Why would the University cover this up? Penn State did it for selfish reasons with no consideration for the suffering of innocent children and to protect itself from a real or perceived threat to its reputation. So they knowingly let it go on. That is a form of GROSS negligence, it should have never even been considered by the university to continue, yet it did. The University CHOSE to allow this to continue. That says something about the University. SO putative damages are meant to punish the offender, and one of those offenders was Penn State. Is $60 Million enough, who knows, but it sure sounds like punishment? What the NCAA is saying by doing this is Penn State's actions are reprehensible and should be punished. It also sends a message to any other corrupt folks that this is not going to be tolerated so don't even think of letting something like this even cross your mind.

Did Penn State punish its own corruption? Did it even recommend a punishment or did it just hope for the best? Oh, I bet JOE PA's estate is gonna take a huge hit, at least in legal bills.