Not a single mention of Joe Murphy in that whole post.
Not being combative, because I could see how it seems like the tone of the thread is being dampened by wishy washy bs from us.
From my perspective, it is quite the opposite. I share almost all of your sentiments and suspicions. But you can see that I am as equally concerned that you are dismissing the travesties and consequences of homelessness as you are that i am glossing over the impact of cte.
I am not in favor of a bottom up approach to corruption and hypocrisy and exploitation. Our qualms with Murphy's situation reach much farther than any intervention, press conference, rules meeting, compensation/legislation can reach.
I could probably do a better job of communicating, being less of a d**k in my content, but that's not me. Nothing you've added has been combative. In fact, I'd rather deal with combative sentiment than the bland, tow the corporate line BS. Your comments are tethered and topical, no offense over here.
I can't deny what you've mentioned, but I'm either too salty or to mentally atrophied to approach in similar fashion. I understand the the detriment of absolutes, but I think the CTE/TBI topic is an instance where we can err on the side of absolute to try and affect change. The cost of better transportation for troops, hyperbaric therapy for vets, and rule changes and compensation for destitute former pro NFL and NHL players is a very small price to pay. Even if those like me are wrong, the cost of erring that way is nothing compared to the mounting human cost of playing hot potato now.
I appreciate that you mentioned the issue of homelessness. Never would I consciously attempt to overlook or dampen this issue, but I agree with the point you made.
Addressing this point, homelessness is something seen in both the vet TBI/PTSD and CTE pro athlete communities. I've had 4 of my close friends take to the streets, 2 made it out, 2 disappeared. I had the 2 that disappeared live with me for a spell, but neither one wanted to be a part of our society anymore. Can't say as I blame them because there's some romantic feels about leaving this s**t reality...
but I know that their absence deeply hurts family and friends. I'll never stop asking myself if I did enough to try and help them and neither will the rest of the blood and work families.
At this point in our evolution, it's difficult for me to understand why homelessness is still an issue. Still, even if homes were a guaranty for all, I believe some would still choose to get away from what we've built, and I can't fault them for that. We live in a predatory world filled with practices like planned obsolescence, archaic fables speaking of 'invisible hands' in market economics providing for the poor, 'acceptable' amounts of collateral damage, etc, etc. Through the 800,000 years we've been around, only since the Neolithic revolution 10,000 years ago have we forced settlement in such numbers... so maybe we just have zero clue on how to organize... who really knows, I sure as f**k don't. I do know there's a problem tho.
The issue of homelessness is closely related to CTE, TBI, and PTSD, but I think it's more of a symptom and less of a precursor in cases where homelessness occurred after detrimental epigenetic exposure (CTE, TBI, PTSD). I know that epigenetics is a controversial topic, but there are plenty of rea$on$ why that's the case.