re: Domestic violence rateof NFL players is about half of the national average

This makes me even more annoyed by the talking head I saw on CNN the other day, she was arguing that the Ray Rice and Adrian Pererson incidents are proof that the NFL needs to provide more and mandatory education about domestic abuse.

Really? Two guys out of hundreds and very different cases and what is that going to do. It's the same issue I have with the way some sexual harassment and prevention classes work. I'm of the thinking that no amount of education is going to stop a rapist or a abuser. You can't enlighten those people. A rapist or abuser isn't going to have a moment where they go "Welp, I never knew that was wrong, guess I'll never do that again."

The best we can hope to do is educate people on what to look for and ways to intervene to stop rapists and abusers, there's verily little hope for the offenders themselves. It seems like a lot of "education" is counterproductive, it scares people into thinking that rapists and abusers are everywhere and unfairly paints groups of people, usually men and in this case all NFL players, with a ridiculously large brush.