I think a role model would come from, you end up finding a scandal of some sort (the Catholic priests sex abuse cases).
Only a minority of priests have abused children. Most priests are good and honorable people. As are most people in general in their day-go-day lives.
As another example, most step dads are not going to abuse a teenage step daughter. But a minority will. And I think those of us who are not abusers tend to under-estimate both how determined and esp. how tricky abusers are. And how big a liar and how skilled a liar the abuser is.
Then we get to institutional response. And it’s like NASA and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 due to the o-rings in the booster not being able to handle cold temperatures. And you have to make a really big deal with a public commission and the facts have to be overwhelming before the institution can publicly acknowledge, Yes, we made a mistake, Yes, we will work to improve things.
So, then it becomes a difficult thing, the person is a decent person outside the institution. But inside the institution, when this same person tries to smooth over and basically sweep something under the rug, no, this same person is not acting as a decent human being.
I mean, the Bishops in the Catholic Church whenever a particular Bishop took a medium step when he should have taken a much bigger step, whose main concern was the short-term reputation of the Church — not so cool. The Bishop should have done so much more.
And the Baptist church has also had problems with abuse and sweeping under the rug. In fact, I did a post that about 5 years ago, the membership itself voted to have an independent commission. And this commission found some pretty alarming facts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...ease-scathing-report-sexual-abuse-2022-05-22/
For decades, complaints of sex abuse by pastors and staff in the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, were either ignored or covered up by top clergy, according to an internal report released on Sunday. "In service to this goal, survivors and others who...
www.yahoo.com
The nearly 300-page report details how complaints were kept as "closely guarded information" within the Convention to avoid liability, "to exclusion of all other considerations," it said. . .
It’s fairly devastating. And I would welcome info that it’s not as bad as it looks, for it looks just terrible.
And just like with the Catholics, we seem to have many cases of, people who...
