Intellectual Censorship?

People are telling me that the legacy of Joe Paterno is a complicated one.

Why?

First of all, the man has died. His family is mourning a deep loss. With respect, I send my condolences.

Now, to what he has left behind.

I make no moral judgments here. I am in no way interested on lectures for or against morality. As an adult, I get to decide my own. The resulting consequences received are ones for which I take full responsibility.

Joe Paterno made a decision to keep coaching, as some analysists have suggested, several years past his effectiveness as a coach for Penn State. He was an example and a leader. He has since died while fighting a disease for which we have no cure.

I find it personally offensive and logically flawed to suggest that people coming into contact with him couldn't discern his moral acts from his morally questionable ones.

Quit expecting everyone to be your parent. You do not need to be censored, coddled, guided and manipulated through your entire life. If you are incapable of looking at a situation and saying, "I know what I should do here," then you research it or you make a choice and live with whatever consequence it brings.

My disgust at the moral and intellectual neutering of this country is about to reach a very loud crescendo.

I do not need someone to explain right and wrong to me; I got it, thanks. Just like if I wanted to live in a Theocracy, I would give up my American Citizenship and move to one. I have no desire to humor the insolence involved with legislating (and judging) personal decisions because people have decided they can't be bothered with making their own choices and recognizing the consequences thereof. At some point, cowardice will be rewarded with a loss beyond comprehension. Will cause and consequence be linked? One can only hope.