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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...05/05/ben.roethlisberger/index.html?eref=sihp
This op-ed piece on SI claims that Big Ben's concussions and motorcycle crash are to blame for his raping ways.
"My specialty is frontal lobes," he says, referring to the part of the brain involved in regulating a person's judgment, inhibition and social behavior. "A person with damage might not read the intentions of a woman at a bar very well, for example," Grafman says. "They might succumb to more primitive urges instead of saying, 'I shouldn't do this because it affects my career.'"
According to Grafman, two particular behaviors are endemic to people with moderate or severe frontal lobe injury, or to people with more mild but repetitive injury: 1) violating social rules by saying inappropriate things, and 2) saying appropriate or typical things in an inappropriate context.
As this week's SI story reports, Roethlisberger seems to have failed some of his personal versions of the marshmallow test, not only by engaging in impulsive behavior, but by returning to helmetless motorcycle riding within months of the accident that nearly killed him.
If doctors do decide that Roethlisberger's misconduct was spurred by brain trauma, the deeper question for the NFL will be determining whether to fault the motorcycle accident or the battering that he has taken on the field -- 242 sacks and at least four concussions. If doctors suggest that Roethilisberger's social development is stunted, and that hits he has taken on the field are, at least in part, responsible, imagine the instances of football players' inappropriate behavior that might be viewed in a new light.
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As far as I'm concerned it's ridiculous to blame Ruthlessraper's criminal actions on concussions and motorcycle crashes. His idiotic decision making is evident before all that, by riding a motorcycle w/o a helmet in the first place. In addition, I'm pretty sure that Aikman has had more concussions than Ruthlessraper, yet Aikman is a stand up guy and hasn't pulled a Ruthlessraper. In the end the blame does not lay with the injuries suffered on the field but instead within the man's ethics.
This op-ed piece on SI claims that Big Ben's concussions and motorcycle crash are to blame for his raping ways.
"My specialty is frontal lobes," he says, referring to the part of the brain involved in regulating a person's judgment, inhibition and social behavior. "A person with damage might not read the intentions of a woman at a bar very well, for example," Grafman says. "They might succumb to more primitive urges instead of saying, 'I shouldn't do this because it affects my career.'"
According to Grafman, two particular behaviors are endemic to people with moderate or severe frontal lobe injury, or to people with more mild but repetitive injury: 1) violating social rules by saying inappropriate things, and 2) saying appropriate or typical things in an inappropriate context.
As this week's SI story reports, Roethlisberger seems to have failed some of his personal versions of the marshmallow test, not only by engaging in impulsive behavior, but by returning to helmetless motorcycle riding within months of the accident that nearly killed him.
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As far as I'm concerned it's ridiculous to blame Ruthlessraper's criminal actions on concussions and motorcycle crashes. His idiotic decision making is evident before all that, by riding a motorcycle w/o a helmet in the first place. In addition, I'm pretty sure that Aikman has had more concussions than Ruthlessraper, yet Aikman is a stand up guy and hasn't pulled a Ruthlessraper. In the end the blame does not lay with the injuries suffered on the field but instead within the man's ethics.
