The Houston Astros have to make a decision on whether to trade for a player accused of domestic abuse. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a woman is assaulted in the United States every nine seconds. Put another way, this is equal to more than seven million women per year. Men who become physical during conflicts in their relationships with women have been rightfully demonized in modern society, and the small subset of those men who are famous are considered pariahs, particularly if/when pictures surface. A tendency towards domestic violence is both dangerous and damaging to the victim — psychologically and physically — and further a sign of impulsivity, stupidity, barbaric misogyny and a general lack of sophistication that most people find deplorable.
Houston Astros: The Moral Dilemma of Aroldis Chapman
