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Usually when you hear about a filthy murderer, you hear about them because of what they did. Normally you don't know of them before it.
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That's a great point. I forgot to point this out in my above Alienoidasm (Alienoidasm - (noun) A long, apparently rambling post that actually makes good points and is well thought out, but may be hard to read because it's so damn long...). We've seen cases like this before in the news... dad kills wife and kids. Or dad kills kids. Or mom kills children.
We're quick to denounce these murderers. Heck, at another message board I frequent, many posters are denouncing Benoit. They don't know him. It's not a wrestling forum. They're seeing this from the common person's perspective. In Benoit's case, it's because we've loved and respected him in the ring. But how are we to know that he was fine outside of it? He was a very private person anyway. Even his friends might not have known, or been able to know.
The only difference here is that we knew and respected Benoit as a wrestler and "as a person" (or at least we thought we knew him as a person) before we knew him as a murderer. That's what makes this pill so tough to swallow.