Wiser: Carlson Paying For His Mistake

NotBetterJustWiser: Look people … the point is, everybody makes mistakes. There is no degree of sin. For so many to vilify a man who spent all of his adult life working earnestly to build a successful, prominent business, be a dedicated family man, support his community in countless ways, and in a short period of his life stumbled and fell into the abyss of drug addiction, and now is paying for it dearly is call for at the very least empathy and at most thankful he did not use all of the cocaine he purchased for the original intent, which was his own use. He would have killed himself!

Question: Wiser makes a good point re: ‘everybody makes mistakes.” And it seems like former Farmers Insurance agent Jerry Carlson is taking steps to make amends. When does a prominent citizen like Carlson deserve empathy for his mistakes? And when does he deserve scorn?