I recognize that someone close to him would find ways to defend him, it's the natural response to a loved one doing something unthinkable. I had a friend murder suicide his wife and anytime I think about the fun we had in elementary school I recognize that he fucking murdered his wife within seconds of his kids running out of the house and feel like a piece of shit. So then I look at his mom's FB page just trying to find some sort of rhyme, reason, or comfort and she's sharing his photos with his wife and kids. She has comments that Christmases aren't the same without them. The relatives share the sentiment. I check out the wife's family and they are raging about how a monster my friend was.
Anyone that did not know him personally should and would side with the wife's family and agree that he was a monster for murdering his wife. That he was a fun guy to be around when we were kids, irrelevant. That he was an amazing academic mind, could do advanced math with the best of them, IRRELEVANT! That in his adult job he was the best to ever did it. NO ONE CARES. He was a murderer.
That Chris Benoit had a world wide platform for his employment, where he was on of the best, we would invalidate him if he was in any field that wasn't entertainment. He was the plumber that fixed our toilet (ok that was Tony Anthony) and then he killed Daniel and Nancy, plumber social media wouldn't have guys going "yeah but have you ever seen the videos of how well he worked a plunger?"
I firmly believe that we should probably give a pass in our heart to the people that were close to Chris that still can't make sense of it and do things like defend him. I also believe that our fellow fans that pull a "yeah but" are out of line.
I'm sure my logic is flawed, but the last couple of days since that tweet got me worked up in my head. (probably less Benoit and more my M/S friend)
