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Im with this. A man that was pulled out of a life that he lived and given every chance in the world to be successful in life and he still chose and I mean chose to live a "thug" life is an idiot and now tax payers do not have to take care of him.Read this and you won't feel any sorrow for AH. Committing suicide showed he was not a real tough guy.
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle
I haven't read the articles today, just saw it on the TV news, but how did he get access to something to hang himself with? That's really against protocol to allow someone like him to have anything he can use.
I don't feel sorry for him, but as a christian, it's always sad to me to see this situation come about and see a life lost without hope.
Read this and you won't feel any sorrow for AH. Committing suicide showed he was not a real tough guy.
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle
I'm in the same camp. He deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison, but I always hope that even lifers will have some redemption of their heart and soul. The finality of something like this... it's not like it brings his victim(s) back, or constitutes any completion of payback, or anything else. Cynically speaking, it means he avoids his sentence.Frankly, I'll break from the norm. I'm not in the camp that is "happy" to see someone pass. He obviously, wasn't a great person, but I hate that he created this situation for himself. He was a talented athlete and his life could have been much different if he made a few better choices. Condolences to his family and those that truly cared about him. I hope those who observed him can learn from his mistakes.
(color change for highlighting purposes)Im with this. A man that was pulled out of a life that he lived and given every chance in the world to be successful in life and he still chose and I mean chose to live a "thug" life is an idiot and now tax payers do not have to take care of him.
Very well put Dat.(color change for highlighting purposes)
I get what you're saying, but I think it's also a testament to just how hard it is to fully overcome something and move on without any baggage, and how even those who do overcome and succeed, there are likely to be similar demons haunting them.
My hesitation in saying he chose this is that it easily slips into the attitude that lives are determined strictly by conscious choices made from equal footing: The poor chose to be poor; the criminal chose to be a criminal, etc. I get the role of choice, but some choices are almost instinctive, not really consciously chosen, and we're not all equally equipped to make good choices. If identifying this as his choice leads to dismissing it as his choice, it means we're unlikely to look at contributing factors that need to be addressed, lest it continue to happen again and again and again.
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I get what you're saying, but I think it's also a testament to just how hard it is to fully overcome something and move on without any baggage, and how even those who do overcome and succeed, there are likely to be similar demons haunting them.
My hesitation in saying he chose this is that it easily slips into the attitude that lives are determined strictly by conscious choices made from equal footing: The poor chose to be poor; the criminal chose to be a criminal, etc. I get the role of choice, but some choices are almost instinctive, not really consciously chosen, and we're not all equally equipped to make good choices. If identifying this as his choice leads to dismissing it as his choice, it means we're unlikely to look at contributing factors that need to be addressed, lest it continue to happen again and again and again.
What a disgraced and incarcerated former athlete does makes for a pretty strong connection between sport and society, but I won't push.Lastly, this is a sports forum. I'm not sure it's appropriate for this board. I'll keep it open for now, but I think this could delve quickly into something we don't need here.
What a disgraced and incarcerated former athlete does makes for a pretty strong connection between sport and society, but I won't push.
We can move on from Aaron Hernandez specifically saying he is defined by his terrible choices and therefore is a terrible person. What I was saying was about how we do everything we can (which still isn't everything) to prevent the next person from going down that path.
Very possible.Hrmm, he had Casey Anthony's lawyer and just beat a double murder. Also, had an appeal coming on the Odin Lloyd case with Anthony's lawyer. Couple that with the fact people who knew him on NE's roster say no way he took his own life, he was murdered. Karma.
Read this and you won't feel any sorrow for AH. Committing suicide showed he was not a real tough guy.
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle
All the more reason for me to tread lightly.That's not really what I was saying at all.