WTF? Are we still leaving in a time where a person can't say that they can "UNDERSTAND" how certain actions can cause certain reactions.
Sure, I can understand reasonable reactions. If someone killed my girlfriend, I'd likely want to do that same in return. However, saying you understand how anyone could slit someone's throat over an the fact that his wife left him and took up with another man is a whole other thing. saying you'd like to punch the guy in the face, or shit even though I don't condone violence on women, slapping his wife could at least be considered a reasonable reaction.
Now you might say she's taking all his hard earned money and ditching him. Okay fine, how do you know that Hogan isn't an ass who abuses his wife be it mentally, emotionally or physically and that maybe he's getting what's coming to him? Given Hogan's public accounts over the years the guy is a certifiable egomaniac and I don't believe it would be below him to do so.
Get off your high horse man. You always act like you would 'NEVER' do anything wrong and act like you never even 'THINK' of doing anything wrong.
No I don't. I commit wrongs everyday and I own up to them. Just because I don't list my daily mistakes on IWF for you to read doesn't mean I'm never wrong.
How could you not see how 'under the circumstances given' a normal person would not think to the level of physical harm?
Physical harm, or cold-blooded murder? Huge difference here.
The reality is that a normal person can think it and understand it and PUSH those thoughts aside and not act on them.
I can't say I've ever had the desire to murder anyone.
We all know OJ did it, he was wrong for doing it, he should be in jail for it, but if being guilty of THINKING it was a crime or not NORMAL then we'd all be in jail.
Okay, fair enough. Thinking about it as a flight of fancy is an escape, fine. These are the kinds of things one keeps to themselves (doesn't say publicly) and also understands that when you think these thoughts that they are nothing more than pure fantasy. We don't attempt to empathize with others who have actually commited crimes. That I would venture is far more normal that what you propose.
Think about it MS - how many times have you read a post here and THOUGHT "you fucking idiot, if I could come through the pc and slap the shit out of you"?? Thoughts are not wrong, the actions are.
See again, slap not slit throat. But even then I'd rather show them why they're incorrect than slap them. Reasonable fucking reactions are your words of the goddamned day.
I think the big thing here is that he referenced OJ. If he would have said:
"You know something brutha, I gave my all to this woman and she turned her back on me, she's taken everything I owned and loved and worked hard for, she continues to spend MY money and actually has some young punk driving my car, dammit brutha, sometimes makes me feel like slitting her throat,argggggggggggh, brutha, but I believe in God and everything happens for a reason and this is no different, so I just wait for God's plan to work itself out"
then would it be so bad??
Yeah it would because he may as well just get down on his knees and start praying to God to smite the chick right then and there. I don't recall God being a hired hitman.
