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Originally Posted by Lothar
By all means, be outraged. Demand justice. Individuals choose a path of action or inaction. When that violates the rights of another, there should be a punishment. Maybe I'm not being clear here.
I have no problem with people in authority and people who witnessed Jerry Sandusky's despicable actions being punished. They should be punished to the full extent permitted by law and under the authority of the NCAA as agreed to by its members. This includes anyone that participated in a cover-up in order to shield themselves or PSU.
I did not go to school at PSU. I am not a Penn State fan. I have been to State College, PA and I have walked around campus. It is a large campus, augmented by satellite campuses around the state. The total number of undergrads across all campuses must number in excess of 60K. Because of that, I cannot see the logic in wanting to "destroy Penn State" because of the actions of a few.
I want to see the system cleaned up in the aftermath of this tragedy and made into an example of what should be. It simply makes no sense to me to punish the people who are left after the swamp has been drained if they had no knowledge of what was happening. Standing as a microcosm of the rest of the world, PSU is made up of individuals. Everyone deserves to be judged as an individual, not thrown under the bus because of where they work or where they go to school.
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So here's what happens when you "punish" only the guilty individual.
The institution, corporation, whatever, hires individuals whose primary purpose is to be the fall guy. They are paid well to take the hit if it comes to it. They are taken care of afterwards. Of course most of these people will not agree to engage in activity that will likely result in jail time although I suspect there may be a few who you can make it worth their while to take the risk.
The institution, corporation, whatever, goes on, business-as-usual.
And no, I'm not making it up, I've seen it first hand, several times.