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Originally Posted by Iginla
Do people even read anymore? Jesus Christ. I never said he COULDN'T have had a mental illness.
Not everyone who commits a heinous crime is suffering from a mental illness or our jails would be half empty.
Some people are just scumbags.
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Someone who has had a large number of head injuries is at increased risk of developing mental illnesses such as depression. This guy who is known to have had a large number of head injuries. To say that it is unlikely that he had a mental illness given what the end result obviously was is being ignorant to the issues.
Could he just have been a rotten apple or a bad person - I guess so. I would rather not just rely on the simplistic approach of saying he was a bad person, but rather looking at other explanations, such as repeated brain injuries (and that is what they are) in an attempt to prevent these incidents from occurring in the future. Look at the recent history of what is known about the lives of professional athletes and those who have had brain injuries and depression - it doesn't paint a pretty picture. I guess you could say they were all cowards and scumbags - but that doesn't do anything to prevent these issues from occurring in the future, in fact it may actually result in less happening due to the increased stigma associated with mental illness.