The Driver Seat
by Hub Pacheco
Before anything else, let me just share a quote from my Theology textbook. It's about conscience.
"Conscience is our capacity to discern what is morally good or evil, with the feeling of being obliged to do the good and avoid evil....Conscience can be defined as our subjective norm of moral behavior, which determines how we should act by applying objective moral norm(s) to a specific moral act."Much like Eddie Guerrero's tragic demise back in 2005, I was caught by surprise by the news of Chris Benoit's double murder-suicide. Much like in 2005, I was in class when I was informed of the news.
By now, the US media will have been all over the Benoit tragedy, debating "'roid rage" and drug abuse as the main cause for what has happened. Being a media student, it can as no surprise that reports spread like wildfire all over newspapers (It made the front page of our national daily here.) and the Internet. The truth, whatever the investigations can tell, is very much vague.
I don't really know the whole story (does anyone? I mean, it was murder-suicide after all.) Speculation is all that can be interpreted by the people in this debate. Internet reports have very little credibility. And since almost everything has been said, let me just go straight to the point:Chris Benoit should not be remembered for the last three days of his life. His is a wrestling career that should be admired by wrestling and non-wrestling fans alike. As far as I know, from watching him on TV, we has always a good hard worker. And his legacy should not be tainted by the last three days of his life.
Let me give an analogy to make my point clearer: Let's say that Osama Bin Laden, being a crazy-ass terrorist that he is, keeps on doing that shit until the last few days of his life. Before he dies, the confesses all his sins and is given penance. Would you remember him as a good person? Or would you remember him for all the shit that he did?
We can never know what Benoit was thinking when he did what he did. We have no right to judge him, even if we constantly do. Let's just leave that judgment to the Big Guy above.
Now leave him be. Chris, Nancy, and Daniel. Rest in Piece.
