Kicking off his testimony at the special committee on Tuesday, Calhoun apologized to the families of Boeing crash victims who were present
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    We generally don’t see all the warts in the people closest to us, and family is more likely to want to put an idealized version of people out there.

    Look at comments by parents of active shooters, to the effect of “I didn’t raise a monster, I don’t know why this happened,”.

    • WldFyre@lemm.ee
      22·
      4 months ago

      I agree with you here but you didn’t say friends, you said lawyers

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        4 months ago

        Are you seriously not seeing why professional contacts would be more likely to have a fair opinion and share it? It’s his lawyers that said he didn’t seem suicidal.

        Or are you seriously just trying to insist it’s not suspicious any way you can?