09-16-2017, 03:13 PM
(09-16-2017, 02:51 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Because there's a difference between hearing about hitting someone and watching him knock her out before callously grabbing her ankle, and dragging her limp unconscious body through a hotel?
How is that even in question?
That's like asking why is watching someone shot to death effects you more than just hearing "yup, someone got shot to death today" on the news. Bad post, man.
Well I guess it is just me. My outrage level won't ever be affected by seeing an incident vs simply hearing about it. I'm just as disgusted with what Ray and Mixon did before the videos came out. It didn't take a visual account of what happened to make me feel any better or worse about it.
The details about what Mixon and Ray did were in the press, simply seeing them shouldn't be the reason Ray was blackballed from the league and why Mixon's draft stock was destroyed. It happened just the same, whether it was on camera or not. The fact that it was captured on camera is irrelevant IMO. The punishment and public backlash should be the same regardless.
Mixon paid his debt to society and like I said, if the video of the incident never came out a lot of people would have forgotten he ever did it. I find that incredibly sad.
