Benoit strangled wife, smothered son

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Professor S

What about when it gets a wife and son killed in the process?

Did any of the owners of the WWE make Benoit kill his family?
Did the WWE make him take steroids, which may have contributed to it?


If a McDonalds employee kills his/her family, because they dyed their hair, and hate their new appearance, but dying their hair was the only way to ensure a job at the top, that is not the fault of the company they worked for.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Did any of the owners of the WWE make Benoit kill his family?
Did the WWE make him take steroids, which may have contributed to it?


If a McDonalds employee kills his/her family, because they dyed their hair, and hate their new appearance, but dying their hair was the only way to ensure a job at the top, that is not the fault of the company they worked for.

I'm not placing BLAME, Benoit is wholly to blame, but instead asociated responsibility. When a drunk driver kills himself and a family in an accident, its not the government's fault... but it is their job to do everything to help keep that from happening again. Companies, like the government, have responsibility for the well being of their constituents and also those that they might hurt.

If a company knowingly hired drug addicts, and the addicts then killed a bunch of people, the company would hold some responsibility for enabling that addict and their destructive behavior. WWE is not taking that responsibility for the well being of their workers and danger they pose to themselves and others, the government must make them take responsibility, just as they do for construction and other labor intensive vocations (OSHA, for instance).

I really don't see why wrestling should be treated any differently when it comes to safety.

[Perfect Stu]

Originally Posted by Bond

I think THAT is the biggest problem with our society today. People have confused freedom with having no responsibilities.

I dunno...I think a bigger problem might be people not taking accountability for their actions. There's always a finger pointing in the opposite direction.

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Professor S

What about when it gets a wife and son killed in the process?

Its really sad that this happend, but in the end his wife and kid was his own responceability, not the WWE's. He had complete control over every decision he made.

The problem with suicide is that it's mental. Someone creates a picture of the world in their mind where they have no oppertunity and would rather die. Even with bad decisions like using drugs, they feel pressured into it.. but the truth is, its just an illusion. Not just an illusion, a destructive illusion.

Maybe he wasn't fit to continue wrestling, maybe he should have just given up. Better that then killing your own family. I really don't like to talk down on the dead like this, but in the end I just hope people can learn something from it. If it was in fact drug related he wasted his entire life.

[Bond]

Hate to bring this topic back up again, but Benoit's body had ten times the normal level of testosterone:

DECATUR, Ga. - Pro wrestler Chris Benoit had a steroid and other drugs in his system when he killed his wife and young son last month and hanged himself in the family's home, investigators said Tuesday.

Benoit's body contained 10 times the normal level of testosterone, as well as amounts of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the painkiller hydrocodone, authorities said.

The testosterone, a synthetic version of the primary male sex hormone, is considered an anabolic steroid. The state's top medical examiner said it appeared to have been injected shortly before Benoit died.

Dr. Kris Sperry said there was no evidence of any other steroids in the wrestler's body, and nothing to show that steroids played a role in the death of Nancy and Daniel Benoit. He also said the boy appeared to have been sedated when he was asphyxiated, and Benoit's wife had a "therapeutic" level of sedatives in her body.

Sperry said there is no consensus that the use of testosterone can contribute to paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as "roid rage."

Source: Yahoo News

[Typhoid]

Did we even need any sort of confirmation on that fact?

Will someone please come out with a study to tell me if Barry Bonds is black or not - I can't tell just by looking.