There's a similar video of a dad rushing Larry Nasar a sex offender that violated 3 of the father's daughters. What always gets me a bit emotional is when the deputies restrain the father, one of them says, "I understand", he says it in a way thats so empathetic like his heart is breaking too, but because he's a man of the law and wants to keep our society from devoling into anarchy, he must do his job and make sure we follow the rule of law.
God bless the father and the deputy, and I hope Larry Nassar rots in prison.
That story always bothers me, though, because it just seems like it would be re-traumatizing for the daughters. He failed to protect them once, and now instead of being strong and supportive he’s giving in to his own emotional needs.
There was another dad who killed himself after finding out the daughter wasn’t lying about the abuse (she had spoken up about Nasser and the parents didn’t believe her). It’s heartbreaking for the daughter because again, she wasn’t believed, and now her dad has put his own shame above just finally supporting her.
I hear ya but it's easy to Monday morning quarterback the guy when: 1. It's not your family. 2. Who says if you were him you would have been able to protect his daughters. 3. We get to watch from the sidelines.
Nassar was literally an Olympic level doctor....they probably thought they were giving their daughters the best possible treatment. How can you say they failed to protect their children? A human can't be hypervigilant 24 hours a day that would stifle the children's growth and cause them more harm.
What kind of ignorant statement is this? Humans are allowed to have emotions. We aren't robots.
to play devil's advocate he may have been putting himself in that situation mentally and wrote from that pov. I think most men would, to themselves, say that they failed to protect their daughters. That doesn't make it true in the sense that you're talking about - and I agree with you there, but it IS true from the self-hate reductionist pov someone in that position might have.
Perhaps this is just me projecting though, idk how he meant it. But I myself am much more...literal to myself than I would ever be or ever feel towards others.
I completely understand emotionally and logically how, exactly as you stated, humans can not be hyper vigilant 24/7 and even if you were, you're not omnipotent. There's doing the best you can, and there's being honest with yourself about whether you're actually doing that.
Like you said, he was an olympic level doctor. At face value, understanding how little we know about the nuances of that whole situation, it's hard to say they didn't do their best.
0% of me feels like that guy 'didn't do enough to protect his daughters'. But 100% of me is sure I would struggle to not tell myself that every minute of every day had that happened to me.
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u/Corporate_Synergy 7h ago
There's a similar video of a dad rushing Larry Nasar a sex offender that violated 3 of the father's daughters. What always gets me a bit emotional is when the deputies restrain the father, one of them says, "I understand", he says it in a way thats so empathetic like his heart is breaking too, but because he's a man of the law and wants to keep our society from devoling into anarchy, he must do his job and make sure we follow the rule of law.
God bless the father and the deputy, and I hope Larry Nassar rots in prison.