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The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings

Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

Well done - your left hook was faster than mine!!
Thanks. I'm certain that you, as well as I, thought of it as supportive of his claim regarding the long term effects of boxing.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

It's possible that brain damage from boxing was a contributing factor. It could have intensified his reactions to problems he perceived or distorted his ability to rationally problem solve or it could have made him more susceptible to dangerous influences. Regardless, such violent behavior is usually the result of a "perfect storm" of a variety of factors.

Boxing had nothing to do with it

Islam had everything to do with it
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

Oh f***** please! Just shoot that little ****.

I keep an AR in the trunk. Would you like to borrow it?
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

Boxing had nothing to do with it

Islam had everything to do with it

Am not religious but I think the bomber was as much a Muslim as Timmie McVay and Freddie Phelps are Christians.

The best answer is he was just pure rotten evil.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

It's possible that brain damage from boxing was a contributing factor. It could have intensified his reactions to problems he perceived or distorted his ability to rationally problem solve or it could have made him more susceptible to dangerous influences. Regardless, such violent behavior is usually the result of a "perfect storm" of a variety of factors.

It requires the ability to depersonalize other human beings. Anybody who can place a bomb beside an smiling 8-year old boy has something missing/jarred loose, but if this were a significant contributor, we would have seen this in boxers' behavior long before now. We haven't, not even Mike Tyson, whose behaviors when he was younger caused me to see him as thisclose to sub-human.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

It requires the ability to depersonalize other human beings. Anybody who can place a bomb beside an smiling 8-year old boy has something missing/jarred loose, but if this were a significant contributor, we would have seen this in boxers' behavior long before now. We haven't, not even Mike Tyson, whose behaviors when he was younger caused me to see him as thisclose to sub-human.

Actually, the older had a history of violence, and is suspected in a multiple murder
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

I would rather beat him to death with my bare hands but thanks anyway.:lol:

Never going to happen. But take some pleasure in knowing the little punk at the young age of 19 will never, never have freedom.


If he gets the death penalty he will be given a date and time and sit there waiting as the clock ticks.
If he gets life he will sit alone in a cell for possibly 60 years. He will feel like a single goldfish in a bowl the size of a butter dish.

Am pretty certain no prison guard will befriend him.
 
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On a serious note about this brain damage thing I was once in a pretty bad motorcycle wreck that split my helmet like a watermelon and left me with complete amnesia for a while. To put it mildly I was severely rattled and did actually have some issues afterwords but violence was not one of them. If however I had gone out and killed people and tried to blame it on my motorcycle wreck I can only hope the would have fried my ass.
 
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Actually, the older had a history of violence, and is suspected in a multiple murder

Yes, I'm familiar with this 9-11 coincidence.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

Am not religious but I think the bomber was as much a Muslim as Timmie McVay and Freddie Phelps are Christians.

The best answer is he was just pure rotten evil.

Timothy McVeigh was Agnostic. He was not a Christian. "Science is my religion" - Timothy McVeigh

Fred Phelps is a life long Democrat. He isn't a real Christian either.

Islam had everything to do with this bomber's actions. Islam is the religion of violence.
 
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Timothy McVeigh was Agnostic. He was not a Christian. "Science is my religion" - Timothy McVeigh

Fred Phelps is a life long Democrat. He isn't a real Christian either.

Islam had everything to do with this bomber's actions. Islam is the religion of violence.

Ah yes, don't miss any opportunity to bring some whiny partisan snipping in.

Phelps is as much a Democrat as McVeigh is a Republican. So what. Both are scum.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

I wonder if he did steroids?

Another thing I was wondering about and never heard. Did the brothers steal the officer they killed firearms. It sounds like the older brother was committing suicide by LEO almost...
 
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Load of crap. There was nothing wrong w/his brain, but there had to be according to the gummint-friendly media in order to explain why a Chechen would attack a country whose govt. supported his people's side in their conflict.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

Lie #1 has just come out. . .

-- No firearm was found in the boat where the surviving Boston Marathon attack suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was found, two officials briefed on the investigation said Thursday. Authorities had said in a criminal complaint there was a standoff between the boat's occupant and police involving gunfire.

Latest developments in the Boston bombing investigation - CNN.com

Now waiting for lie #2. . .
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

I remembered hearing there was no gun in or around the boat. I think the gunfire was because he would not come out.
Lie #1 has just come out. . .



Now waiting for lie #2. . .
 
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Ah yes, don't miss any opportunity to bring some whiny partisan snipping in.

Phelps is as much a Democrat as McVeigh is a Republican. So what. Both are scum.

McVeigh never ran for office as a Republican as far as I know

Phelps has run for office as a Democrat 5 times. His son was a delegate for Al Gore

Islam is the religion of violence

Little Commandos vid sees five year olds in Afghan terror camp | The Sun |News
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

I think somebody should study his brain. I see nothing wrong with it. I wouldn't be surprised if he had some kind if imbalance or was bipolar or something, just because he seemed unstable and extremely angry. Perhaps he even did steroids.

They guy seems to have a lot of misplaced anger to me.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

They don't need a brain surgeon to know what's wrong with this man. It's not his short time in the ring as a amateur boxer.

There are thousands of retired boxers; they aren't noted for blowing things up. There are thousands of children who grew up in poverty; they aren't noted for blowing things up. There are thousands of people unhappy with the way things turned out for them; unhappy people aren't noted for blowing things up.

Then there are radical Muslim extremists; hey, they are noted for blowing things up. We may have a winner.
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

They don't need a brain surgeon to know what's wrong with this man. It's not his short time in the ring as a amateur boxer.

There are thousands of retired boxers; they aren't noted for blowing things up. There are thousands of children who grew up in poverty; they aren't noted for blowing things up. There are thousands of people unhappy with the way things turned out for them; unhappy people aren't noted for blowing things up.

Then there are radical Muslim extremists; hey, they are noted for blowing things up. We may have a winner.

I don't remember anyone saying the boxing *caused* him to blow people up. The question is did it play a role?

Most people can control their anger. Damage to the frontal cortex can inhibit a persons ability to control their anger

However, AFAIK it doesn't cause anger
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

talk about your odd theories. Maybe the kid was just an asshole?
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

I don't remember anyone saying the boxing *caused* him to blow people up. The question is did it play a role?

Most people can control their anger. Damage to the frontal cortex can inhibit a persons ability to control their anger

However, AFAIK it doesn't cause anger

I would imagine that all of his life experiences contributed to some degree, but radical Islam seem to have played a big role.
 
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I would imagine that all of his life experiences contributed to some degree, but radical Islam seem to have played a big role.

Certainly his experiences all contributed. I think that's sort of the point
 
Re: The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bomb

I don't remember anyone saying the boxing *caused* him to blow people up. The question is did it play a role?

One more deflection from blaming the bombing on what is at fault here. And that is that our enemy, radical Islam, attacked us through these two young men. And liberal progressives are doing anything they can to head off blaming the Obama administration for dropping the ball.

If this were a Republican in the WH right now, I can assure you that all of this supposition about what caused the little **** to be a terrorist scumbag would not be the focus. It would be how the President is to blame.
 
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