There's no point now wrestling with blame

Tom Knott has an article in the Washington Times that I think sums up my feeling on the Benoit matter. Below are some excerpts:

...Let's be adults here. We all know the deal with professional wrestling. It is make-believe mayhem that demands its practitioners to look like puffed-up characters out of a cartoon strip.

If you elect to find employment in this culture — because of the money, babes and lifestyle — you know the pact you are making.

You know you will be sacrificing your body in exchange for a quality of life that otherwise would be beyond your grasp.

What you do with the opportunity is up to you. It is not up to McMahon...

...It is impossible to know what demons were lurking in the dark crevices of Benoit's warped mind as he went about his grisly deed...

...When busty Chyna attacks McMahon, you feel compelled to ask: Why did you elect to curl up with a snake when you knew it could bite?

There is something called personal accountability, quaint as that notion is today.

Something bad happens nowadays, and the inclination is to cast a net of blame.

Unless authorities can place McMahon in Benoit's home at the time of the murder-suicide or show that he coerced Benoit into becoming a professional wrestler years ago, then it is all on Benoit.

He chose to be in the culture of professional wrestling and everything that goes with it.

And he chose to kill his wife and son, which is not as rare as it should be.

There is always another missing woman on the airwaves, and usually, the person of interest is the man who is or was in the woman's life, and he is not a professional wrestler...

source: washingtontimes.com