Stallion, do you think that someone who comes across as a spoiled brat is more likely to rape someone than someone who doesn't?
Can I ask how Jared from Subway came across to you this time last year? Would you have pegged him for a kiddie diddler?
I wouldn't have. but he was, and he enabled people who were. And while I guess you can look back and say "jeez I guess he was just trying to get into smaller and smaller jeans it was obvious for years what he was doing" I'm not sure that's enough to reliably cast judgement on prior to the fact.
(also not that it's relevant but the Bulls team doctors are not particularly trustworthy when it comes to players and being cleared to get on the court. Just ask Luol Deng.)
I'm not suggesting that the "spoiled brat" impression he gives off means that he fits the profile of a rapist. I'm merely highlighting the fact that he doesn't exactly seem like the type who puts the feelings / needs of others above his own.
I wouldn't sit there and say "Derek Rose - yeah, he seems like the type who would rape somebody". At the same time if somebody tells me that he did, I wouldn't sit there in shock and disbelief.
Now if somebody told me that Tim Duncan raped somebody, THAT would leave me in absolute shock because he seems like the type of person who always puts other's first.
By no means would you say that being a selfish person means that you would be the type to rape somebody - I would never say such a thing.
However I do think you'd have to be very self centered to do such a thing, because your level of empathy for the other person would have to be lower than your desire to satisfy your own urges.
The way I see it you'd have to either be extremely selfish, or else you'd have to have a legitimate mental illness (i.e. not fully aware of what you're doing, and the fact that it is harmful to the other person).
If you know that the act is potentially going to be harmful to the other person, but you do it anyway, then you would have to be incredibly selfish (among other things).
This is why when I hear reports like this about a guy who has had a history of displaying selfish and arrogant behavior, it makes the story somewhat less difficult to believe.