Sounds reasonable to me and I am sure that many in the U.S. agree and that it is a position that transcends political affiliation, socio-economic positioning, race, gender, age and various other demographic divisions in the country.

Ray Rice, Ray MacDonald, Greg Hardy, Chris Brown, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn Steven Seagall, Judge Mark Fuller, the list goes on and on. The famous people of sports, movies, music, television, politics, etc are center front page news in this and other situations.

Domestic abuse and child abuse are pervasive cancers in our society and zero tolerance is indeed the only acceptable standard.

Should Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, Ray MacDonald be banned for life from playing in the NFL?

Should employers in other private sector industries be able to fire and ban for life truck drivers, doctors, nurses, teachers, actors, singers, carpenters, accountants, politicians when they are convicted of domestic abuse?

Many will say to the first question and resounding no to the second.

What penalties should be imposed by employers when a person is arrested for and admits to domestic or child abuse and avoids punishment through pre-trial diversion programs? Should those abusers also be banned from their field of employment..for life.for a shorter period of time?

Should people who choose a profession that puts them in the public eye not be afforded the equal protection aspects of our laws and rules and be treated differently, more harshly than regular citizens?

Should an employer, the NFL in the Ray Rice case, have the absolute right to say who can and cannot work for them? How about the local store, factory or school? If an employer can exclude domestic abusers from employment, what other groups might be excluded those convicted of drug abuse offenses, DWI, sex crimes..?

Again, I support zero tolerance for domestic and child abusers and jail time for even first time offenders, but once a case is adjudicated (fairly or unfairly in each of our minds) and the court-assigned punishment served should employers be able to ban groups of people from certain career fields?

No answer here, just lots of questions.

For those that like lists

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