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Originally Posted by tk13
We don't know this, though. No one does. I hesitate to even enter this argument because it's a brutal one. But the dude almost drove off a cliff a while back.
That's the catch. Yeah there is a selfish side to it. Then there's a side to it where anyone who has the ability to stick a gun to themselves and pull the trigger is obviously suffering some sort of severe mental problem. I don't understand how people argue otherwise. There is nothing about this that should be considered normal behavior.
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You do make a good point here. There is a fine line between crazy and selfish, and I've conceded that I'm, reluctantly, willing to overlook crazy.
However, although I agree you have to be "off" to kill yourself, I wont say thats enough for me to give someone a pass.
The problem here is eliminating the possibility that ego played a role. I can envision someone (Donald Trump) falling into financial ruin, and they are so damned self-centered that their family's potential misery is overwhelmed by their own financial, moral, or reputational standing, and they can't see that life is worth living because of how bad they'd feel, without a thought for how sad everyone else would be. To hell with those people. I want true, rare, genuine, drooling crazy.
The fact that Seau recently came into financial difficulty doesn't help, if someone wants to argue his depression was sparked by his financial problems, thats only going to harden my heart, because that points to an ego-driven person staring into his downfall, without a care in the world for his mother's tears, not willing to live through it.