Crime vs. Punishment

I've been seeing a lot about the Brian Cushing re-vote lately around various sites. Its seems that there are mainly two camps out there.
Camp 1. Brian Cushing cheated and therefore doesn't deserve the DROY (Defensive Rookie of the Year) award and Camp 2, Brian Cushing was punished by the league and everything else doesn't matter.
Well I don't believe its quite that clear. Let me first state that HCG does occur naturally in males, although its generally not in testable ammounts. This we know, Cush had testable ammounts of HCG in his body. Unless he was trying to get pregnant there really wasn't a good excuse for that ammount to be there. So, he violated the NFL's banned substance list. The Nfl punished Cush by suspending him for the first 4 games of the season. Thats 4 weeks without playing or pay. That is the NFLs policy. Same punishment as Holmes.
Since this test was failed last September a lot of people believe he should also lose his AP DROY award and are blasting the media for their hypocrasy. Remember their hollier than thou stance againt MLBers during the late 90's and early 2000's?
I believe the punishment and lack of one fit the crime. While I don't agree with tha AP re-vote results (Cush retained the award with 18 first place votes) I'm not fully convinced he didn't deserve it. Let me explain. After a player tests positive and awaiting the appeals process to play out, he is subject to frequent tests from his team and agents / lawyers to prove he remained clean throughout the process. This means that after his positive result in September he remained clean throughout the rest of the season. I think he earned the award, kind of. I'm not condoning what hes done but how mad can I get?
Roethlisberger is facing up to 6 games missed this season due to his conduct detrimental to the league. Different rule break, different action. The difference in the two is that Cushings sentence guideline is set in stone, black and white. It's in the rule book. Roethlisbergers sentence was in the hands of Goodell. A grey area.
I believe that for any orginization to be succcessful at enforcing its rules they first have to be consistent. Conduct detrimental is a hard rule to set a standard punishment for because of all the possible infractions that may be commited. So it is what it is right now.
The league should have been harder on BB and the media should have crusified Cush. Just my opinion. Crime and Punishment sometimes a little to grey.