The Big Shrek wrote:Psyber wrote:The Big Shrek wrote:Honestly, Carey has only done three bad things over 15 years of footy. Grabbing the girls tits in 94, shagging Stevens' missus and glassing his girlfriend(if this even happened). These things happen in society all the time. The drugs and alcohol path is easy to slip down in the circles Carey would move in. Our culture even glamourises abusing substances. I could name loads of people who are considered good blokes but objectively behave as bad as Carey.
Dog_ger is completely right, get of his back.
I think you mean he has only been caught, or not effectively covered up for, three times.
I do agree though he has been the best player I have seen overall.
Our society does glamourise drug abuse [including alcohol] because it suits commercial interests - something needs to be done to stop that before it becomes even more widely accepted as normal....
Society glamourising something is a signpost to the greater issue here. People in general have very few morals/opinions which are absolutely inherent. What behaviour we believe is acceptable is due to the culture we grew up in. It isn't just random luck that people who believe in bigamy are born into mormon families or that people who don't like pork are jews. Carey has basically been living in a culture with a different set of norms to the rest of us. While I won't say he shouldn't still respect the behavioural standards of the rest of the community,
it still reduces his culpability and explains his behaviour.
Only if you assume he has
never been exposed to general moral values and heard of the Law. Living in the "sports jock" culture may have encouraged him to believe he could get away with ignoring broader societal rules, but it did not make him ignorant of them. So, he
is responsible for his choice to try to get away with it because he thought he could, and for his actions.
It may explain his behaviour but it doesn't reduce his culpability.
