The Vikings, after reactivating Peterson for their next game, have decided to place him on something called the Exempt List, which bars him from any team activities (including practices and team functions outside of the actual games) for an indefinite period of time. It is in response to a very strong public backlash (particularly from various sponsors for Peterson, the Vikings, and the NFL) after word of a prior complaint for abuse was made public. There doesn't seem to be much information on it, as it apparently wasn't pursued as a legal case but was documented by child-welfare authorities. Apparently he struck one of his children in the face hard enough to leave a scar.
I think the Ray Rice situation is probably a heavy influence on the public and corporate reaction to Peterson's case, and I wonder if there will be more progress made against the view that such harsh beatings of children are "just discipline" than there will against the view that domestic violence is a "private" issue that should be left alone. Time will tell.
I think the Ray Rice situation is probably a heavy influence on the public and corporate reaction to Peterson's case, and I wonder if there will be more progress made against the view that such harsh beatings of children are "just discipline" than there will against the view that domestic violence is a "private" issue that should be left alone. Time will tell.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
