Why are so many wrestling fans so fixated on steroids as a cause for Benoit's behavior?

Question

I admit he took steroids, but why are you guys discounting any injuries/concussions he suffered from his flying head butt? The damage that he was taking from that move had to be a lot more serious than the steroids that he used with the constant slamming of his brain against his skull.

However, from everything that has been said about Dr. Astin, it seems like he was treating Benoit properly for his condition and he wasn't going to jeopardize his license for what would be considered a paltry sum to juice up a single wrestler.

Answer 1

It's simply because they commit the "acts of wrong thinking". They are too PARTIAL to look only on one side of the side of the situation, too EGO-INVOLVED to defend themselves right because they think the'yre intellectuals, too EGO-CENTRIC for they do not consider what others feel, and too ADVERSE to defend their sides and stick on it when they should've been 'researching' to find answers and not just say what they know.

Answer 2

the proper same as I felt observing him stay and on uncooked, SD! WWECW, WCW & ECW. that's the Chris Benoit I keep in mind, not the techniques broken equivalence of a eighty year previous woman with alziemers. Chris Benoit is the main suitable occasion of ways risky professional wrestling could be, not only bodily yet mentally. i stumble on it quite hypocritical how WWE followers in partic can proceed to computer screen what those athletes do even as retaining Chris Benoit in a detrimental part of the techniques. There wasn't even an finished learn how to be honest yet this is to boot the factor. Chris Nowinski carried out the learn on Benoit's techniques and the info is physically powerful there. What occurred hasn't taken away something from Benoit's in ring performances, sacrifices that each and all of us professional wrestlers make. The call keeps to be an analogous however the guy some each physique is judging is a thoroughly distinctive guy or woman to who they watched attempt against. I have not any sturdy techniques approximately that guy or woman, however the wrestler? I even have each and each of the honor in the international for. He enjoyed wrestling, it became his existence, he nonetheless took the time to take long flights to flow to his family individuals in his day without work. I aint making excuses, i'm stating the certainty that as quickly as somebody is going loopy, they improve right into a distinctive guy or woman to who they have been. On a a lot lesser scale, somebody is heavily inebriated or drugged additionally has his character altered. while the techniques realises to differenciate what's genuine and what's paranoia, the physique follows. it ought to happen to the different individual and particularly with the emotional withdrawl indicators additionally.

Answer 3

First off, people want to understand why others do horrific things. If some famous Hollywood actor was found guilty of murdering his family, people would be asking "What drove him to it?" They hope to understand the causes behind despicable behavior, which may be an irrational hope right there. But it's also why TV shows like "Criminal Minds" and "Law & Order:SVU" are popular.

Second, because people (especially in the USA) want someone or something to be ultimately responsible, so they can SUE.

Yes, people in the USA think lawsuits are the answer for everything. If a plane crashes, sue the aircraft manufacturer (negligence in design & testing), Earthquake kills people? Sue the building owner & contractors. Someone was shot & killed while robbing a store? Sue the police department! Someone fall asleep at the wheel and drove into a crowded park? Sue the drug company that made their medication!

Having the person who comitted the crime be responsible is no good if they're dead, look at the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings- very few politicians focus on the shooter, but instead on gun control laws- the fault MUST LIE with the system that allows killers to get weapons, not with the sicko who slaughtered a bunch of people then blew his own brains out. I'm not saying that companies have no responsibility in these cases, but our getting carried away with litigation has left us lumping the serious with the absurd. Which brings me to my 3rd point.

Many people (especially in the medical community) have long felt that the dangers of steroids have been swept under the rug, dismissed and underreported at the urging of the big-money interests who profit from them.

This leads to more young wrestlers (and kids of impressionable age who watch wrestling) thinking it's all hype, paranoia and exagerration. As a result, more of them wind up using steroids and the consequences can be terrible, both to their own lives and those around them. Forget about the premature deaths and financial hardships brought on by using steroids & painkillers for such an extended period of time- and let's just look at the very specific issue of juiced-up jocks physically assaulting people.

This isn't the first time someone went off on a "roid rage" and attacked their friends or family members. It's happened countless times, that's how the term got coined. I personally know a couple of women who visited the ER because their wannabe-bodybuilder boyfriends went off during arguments, resulting in broken bones. When you're dealing with physical specimens like these guys, it only takes a split second to inflict serious or even deadly, injury.

But it's such a high-profile case and in this case, such a horrible crime, that people feel it has the ability to bring this major issue to light in ways that crimes involving less famous people couldn't.

Now Benoit's case certainly looks more premeditated than accidental to me, but I could be way off. The police haven't released all the information they've collected, and no one outside of that house KNOWS what went down.

Maybe Benoit simply killed them in cold blood, or maybe in his mind he was Dr. Kevorkian and thought it was a mercy killing- I don't know what medical issues any of them had in recent days. Maybe arguing with his wife he got furious and grabbed her by the neck and didn't intend to kill her but did.
Then a day later he realizes his mentally retarded son has no mother and he's facing a life in prison so the kid won't have a father either. Clearly he'd lost all hope afterwards because he hung himself, too.

In any event it doesn't matter- even if he's in a drug induced haze when he kills people, they are just as dead, and he's still responsible, whether he planned it, overrreacted or can't remember. I realize that legally this matters in terms of manslaughter vs varying degrees of murder. Maybe we'd hate him less if he was hallucinating at the time, but the blood is still on his hands- just like the blurry-eyed drunk driver who kills someone because he couldn't see the stop sign.

There may be explanations, there is no excuse.

Answer 4

Hey call me naive but i fill it was a set up , Benoit was murdered , none of us was in that house and as of right now the 3 that were there are dead, more to come

Answer 5

Probably because there is a long history of people on steroids doing awful things as a result of taking them. . . .

Answer 6

i think its probably because everyone wants to find a reason for it as apposed to facing what is currently being said, that he knew what he was doing etc. It is an out for why he always seemed so nice and yet behind closed doors seemed to have been completely different.

Answer 7

cause people are probably like "oh, hes a wrestler, he must be on steroids"
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i hate when someone thinks of wrestling, they think of steroids

Answer 8

wheather he was juiced up or not is besides the point everyone!!!!! a crackhead does not get to use the fact they was strung out on crack when the murdered someone as a defense...benoit is a piece of s#!+

Answer 9

it's the ones who are looking for a quick answer. they are the non-believers and not true fans.....they have heard about "roid rage" and want to blame something......some are even trying to blame it on drinking and that. it's crazy and they just need to leave it alone so the family can start to heal.

Answer 10

Someone came up with this theory and ran with it.

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