Why they should let Adrian play

     What Adrian Peterson did to his 4 year old son was brutal and excessive. Adrian Peterson has proved that he is untrustworthy as a parent and he should not be allowed to be alone with his children until he has proved that he understands what he did was wrong.

     My question however is this: why should he be denied an opportunity to practice his profession? 

In this society, we allow people who have done much worse than Peterson to continue to make a living. A lawyer or a doctor or an accountant can drive drunk and endanger hundreds of people and at worse, they will incur financial penalties, yet we allow them to continue to practice and earn a living, even after they have been convicted of their crime.

     There are anonymous parents who do much worse than Peterson to their children everyday, yet they continue to live their lives and be a part of society. No one screams about them on radio, writes torrid editorials or calls for them to be left unemployed. However, Peterson must be suspended or even banned from the NFL? 

Double standard.

    To me, this is not a football issue but a liberty issue. Society has NO right to demand that Adian Peterson be kicked out of the NFL. Society DOES have a right to demand that he be banned from seeing his kids without supervision. Society DOES have a right to hold him accountable for his actions and to punish him with incarceration or other penalties IF a jury of his peers convict him of a crime. Society DOES have a right to hold him up a an example of how NOT to discipline children and to ostracize him if they choose. However, society does NOT have a right to deny him his occupation OR to to practice his profession.