Kicking off his testimony at the special committee on Tuesday, Calhoun apologized to the families of Boeing crash victims who were present
  • WldFyre
    3·
    5 months ago

    Why is it more meaningful coming from lawyers then from family? I don’t follow

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 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
        22·
        5 months ago

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

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          5 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?