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[QUOTE="alphaorange, post: 159490, member: 305"]
I doubt that anyone posting on this, or any other board, has the absolutely spotless moral history to be passing judgment on the ending of another person's life. It was a horrible situation that negatively impacted many innocent lives and JP certainly appears to be guilty of inaction that contributed to the ongoing abuse. However, since he is from a full generation different from mine, I wonder what the standard was for action to this would be. I don't know what the average person from that generation would have done. Maybe the same, maybe different, but I don't know. I can only recognize that there are major changes in the way these type of things are reported and handled with each new generation.
 
Guilty of not doing enough? Absolutely. Power to have stopped it? Yes. A full understanding of what was going on and what he should do? I don't know, so to say he deliberately stayed quiet to protect his program is something I have trouble stating with any conviction.For me, the question of his penance is direct tied to his thought process and motivation for handling it the way he did. I'm no apologist. I have never been a Paterno fan and I detest Penn State. However, I have never been a fan of lynch mobs and I'm not comfortable making a judgment on another life, especially without knowing all the facts and answers to questions I might have.
 
And BTW, since I have lost three members of my family to lung cancer, including my mother and my brother, I have trouble wishing that on anyone.
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