Beating Death of SUNY Brockport Student by Boyfriend

[BCEagle91]

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<p>Even then you’re assuming that correlation = causation. </p>

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<p>If you want to put words into my mouth or tell me what I’m thinking, please provide the courtesy of posting what I said so that I have some idea as to what you are talking about.</p>

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<p>Fwiw, most good hockey players start playing by the age of 3/4/5. Do you really
think that at that age, they are attracted to the sport because of some kind of
aggression? </p>

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<p>A straw man, known in the UK as an Aunt Sally, is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.[1] To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the “straw man”), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[1][2]</p>

<p>– Wikipedia</p>

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<p>The sport that he played had nothing, I repeat, NOTHING to do with this murder.
The sport did not teach him to be violent. The sport did not enhance his violence. </p>

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<p>Your opinion. I disagree.</p>

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<p>You know what did? The fact that he was an abusive waste of skin. </p>

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<p>Nice science there.</p>

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<p>What you’re saying is, quite frankly, an insult to athletes everywhere.</p>

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<p>Only in your interpretation. I’m a former athlete.</p>

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<p>And it almost feels like a justification of what he did. I do not believe you intend
it that way, </p>

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<p>It would help if you tried to avoid reading my mind and just focused on what I write.</p>

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<p>but when you shift blame away from HIM to any external factors, you are
shifting blame and that goes into justification.</p>

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<p>The guy in Colorado killed a bunch of people and had a bunch of mental health problems. He has personal responsibility but I certainly believe that his mental health problems contributed to his act. There is free will and biology. There are certainly other people that have mental health problems and lead normal, everyday lives or have lots of problems living normal lives but they don’t go out and kill people.</p>

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<p>Violence outside the rink is not tolerated in hockey or any other sports by the
vast majority of athletes.</p>

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<p>I never said that it is.</p>

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<p>You will always have outliers like this waste, the lacrosse player, and Vick- but they
are NOT violent because of their sports. </p>

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<p>I agree that you will have outliers but disagree in that I think that the violence in their sports contributes to their actions. Basically the and space in a Vend Intersection diagram.</p>