OT: I just watched Aaron Hernandez's documentary

[FlatearthZorro]

Hey guys,

I hope all of you are staying safe and my post reaches you well!

I just watched Aaron's documentary on Netflix.

It's weird how life is, the guy is talented, but I also think he had severe CTE by his mid 20's, his behavior corresponds perfectly with the diagnosis. He's also bi-sexual which was torturing him his whole life. As I sat there and watched the documentary, it seemed as if they were trying to spin it on his sexual orientation, but I do believe it was the CTE combined with his dad's death(add to that the fact he didn't wanna admit he was attracted to men). He was never close to his mom. His cousin was his defacto mom. She denied to testify against him and got a sentence, she was having breast cancer treatment at the time. Add to that the fact his mom was dating his Tanya's(his cousin) husband.. And then Aaron started meeting bad people by virtually living at his cousin's house.

I guess Aaron thought he'd get his family straight for life by committing suicide, which is a rule in MA, I guess. It was overturned, tho.

Btw, him and Gronk were easily, even after 2 years and were going to be, the best TE duo ever. I remember watching them the first year and I had watched football for a year and I thought that what I'm witnessing is special.

And at the end I thought about what a dime his wifey was/is. Regardless of what he did, she stuck by him and was always by his side.

[captain green]

Piss on this dude. Where I get the factors on possible causes, most people face harsher **** without having millions of dollars. I'll never understand ball players getting dui's when they can afford a driver or beating there women. Just a bad confused egg that was thrown multiple life supports and wasted it. I can't find empathy for people like this.
I don't care if he was gay bi or whatever and do think that **** should get resolved so that it can just be even. I'm tired of the gay bashers, and non equality ****.

[FlatearthZorro]

Piss on this dude. Where I get the factors on possible causes, most people face harsher **** without having millions of dollars. I'll never understand ball players getting dui's when they can afford a driver or beating there women. Just a bad confused egg that was thrown multiple life supports and wasted it. I can't find empathy for people like this.
I don't care if he was gay bi or whatever and do think that **** should get resolved so that it can just be even. I'm tired of the gay bashers, and non equality ****.

I do understand you, but I also believe people are different and everybody can't react the same to certain situations in life. Tbh, I think when you're a teenager and a bunch of **** happens to you, it is possible that you go a bad rout to go along with his health issues..

[Slax]

Piss on this dude. Where I get the factors on possible causes, most people face harsher **** without having millions of dollars. I'll never understand ball players getting dui's when they can afford a driver or beating there women. Just a bad confused egg that was thrown multiple life supports and wasted it. I can't find empathy for people like this.
I don't care if he was gay bi or whatever and do think that **** should get resolved so that it can just be even. I'm tired of the gay bashers, and non equality ****.

Obviously Hernandez was a bad person - he was a murderer who chose to kill and understood what he was doing and that it was wrong. But if some combination of childhood family turmoil, CTE, recent personal tragedy caused by losing one family member and seeing another going through dangerous health issues, and dysphoria of repressing his sexual orientation in response to homophobic social norms all contributed to whatever horrific sickness of mind that culminated him killing someone and then himself, I think it's both interesting and useful to understand those factors, fwiw.

[Shuttlesworth99]

I’d suggest following up with watching League of Denial (full doco available on YouTube).

I watched the Hernandez doco a few months ago. Obviously you feel horrible for the victims, 100%. But I couldn’t walk away hating Hernandez. There is times when in his eyes he looks like a happy, innocent young kid, other times they look quite evil. But I’m really on the CTE is a major culprit point of view.

[24istheLAW]

Piss on this dude. Where I get the factors on possible causes, most people face harsher **** without having millions of dollars. I'll never understand ball players getting dui's when they can afford a driver or beating there women. Just a bad confused egg that was thrown multiple life supports and wasted it. I can't find empathy for people like this.
I don't care if he was gay bi or whatever and do think that **** should get resolved so that it can just be even. I'm tired of the gay bashers, and non equality ****.

Totally agree. I don't care why he was a horrendous human being, he was. The world is full of downtrodden, abused people, who suffer so much, yet find it in their heart to be decent human beings (much less merely not be murderers). I couldn't possibly have less empathy for the guy.

[Captain_Caveman]

FYSA: He probably shot at least six people in the head by the time he was 24.

[Andrew McCeltic]

Always tough to know how to balance compassion and judgment..