The ex-Florida Gator and ex-New England Patriots player apparently committed suicide in his jail cell on Tuesday morning. The news broke and I saw a lot of people feeling sorry for him. Odd, given that they didn't mention how sorry they were for the man he killed.
Like it or not, Hernandez was a convicted murder and by most accounts, an all around sociopath who would likely kill again. Notice that I don't throw around words like that-in fact, I think most people use the word "sociopath" grossly out of context and use it to describe people they don't personally like. It's sad that people use that loaded of a term, but it shows off their ignorance. In his case from what little I know, I think the word applies.
Time for me to put on my mean guy hat:
People who murder others in cold blood are not good people. In fact, they are evil. Evil exists in this world, and that's something that many of us don't like to accept or admit. If someone truly evil kills themselves, it's not a bad thing. In fact, it might save more innocent lives. If Hernandez won his case on appeal and was let free, do you think he'd suddenly open up a hospice for AIDS patients and people dying of cancer? Do you think'd he donate a kidney to Syrian refugees? NO. He'd almost assuredly start up life just where he ended it before he was arrested for murder. That he killed himself is not a tragedy in any way, shape or form.
Mean guy hat removed.
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