Wednesday, November 15, 2017

A mistake?!

Lonzo Ball speaking of his brother LiAngelo's arrest on shoplifting: "Obviously he make a mistake, but got to learn from it and move on." LiAngelo himself said, "I've learned my lesson from this big mistake."

What is there to learn from it? Does they mean to imply that LiAngelo did not know that theft is wrong? Is that what he had to learn? Or maybe LiAngelo only needed to learn that there were penalties for shoplifting? I repeat, What was there for LiAngelo to learn from this that he did not already know? They seem to be trying to mitigate his guilt by claiming ignorance for him - but that will not fly.

And he called it a mistake. What about it was a mistake? A mistake is when you think you are doing the right thing, but it turns out to be wrong. Was LiAngelo so morally defective that he thought it was the right thing to do to steal? No, I suspect that even he realized it was wrong, but just did not care. It is not a "mistake" when you  know it is wrong and do it on purpose anyway!

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