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Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool
Why can't you accept that Benoit was a grown man making desisions to hurt his own head? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Chris start doing diving head butts way back in Japan? So, Benoit started wrestling what in 87? It is 2007 now, so for shits and giggles, he wrestled 20 years. Lets assume he wreslted 250 matches a year for the sake of arguement. Now I know some years he barely wrestled some years, and in his early years he probably worked 2 matches a day and more matches, but for the sake of argument, lets assume an average of 250 matches a year. And to my knowledge he did the diving head butt every match. For 250 matches (each with a diving head butt) for 20 years, that is 5000 diving head butts. That is 5000 more brain damaging head shots than your normal wrestler. And These are going to be far more taurmatic than other head shots as his head is dropping 11 feet to the canvis.
While hindsight is 20/20, if I was a wrestler, 1) I would never use a move where I drop myself on my head as a finisher, 2) if I did (hell even if I didn't) I would get a regular cat scan to make sure I'm not suffering to much brain damage. Because what is the point of making millions of dollars to retire to a nursing home.
So if you start looking at what Chris could have been doing for himself all along instead of just acting like this was an unforseeable tragidy, it starts to become pretty damning. It is Benoit's fault for dropping himself on his head. It is Benoit's fault for taking 'roids and pain killers. It is Benoit's fault for not trying to have a lighter schedule. And because he constantly choose to do nothing, it is all his fault his family is dead, and he hung himself.
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For it to be his fault, if this is true, it would have to be proven that he had reasonable knowledge that his job, his being dropped on his head, etc, could lead to the death of his family at his hands.
The same thing could happen to a boxer, or a football player, or a basketball player, etc.
Hell, if someone gets into a car accident and gets a concussion, can they be blamed for actions that happen later due to that concussion? Or since they now know what can happen when they drive, if they drive anyway and get into another accident, that causes another concussion, can they be blamed for their actions later caused by that concussion?