No person should have any issue with abusing a woman is crossing the line and is not acceptable. Abusing 24-30 women is a serial abuser and shouldn't need any explanation or guidelines. To your point, the state you are in becomes your responsibility to know the law. The state has no obligation to inform you of the laws in that state. If you get pulled over in Ohio where the drunk driving law is .08 but you're from Indiana where that same law is .10, do you get a lighter sentence because you didn't know the law was different in Ohio? If you drink 2 bottles of vodka and get behind the wheel, you already know that you have violated the laws of every state. There's no way in hell that anyone can present a valid argument that Watson was unaware that abusing 24-30 women was a major violation of the PCP and was subjecting himself to major penalties no matter where he committed the act.
And yet the NFL couldn't define what sexual assault was, prior to the investigation. Not even in general terms. Not in specific terms. It took an investigator to define it for them, which is carries its own issue of integrity.
If the law says DUI is .08 and you blow .07 do you think it is ok for the cop to decide that's close enough i.e. change the rule during or after the investigation?
The NFL's system is broken. Most corporations have the wherewithal to actually define what is unacceptable according to their conduct policies, and it doesn't involve "we'll know it when we see it". and it leads to caprious discipline and abuse from the commish. Even when they seat someone to make it look like they are trying to play fair they screw that pooch as well.
