I never really understood the pity that people had for Fatty
Chris is a terrible person...end of story. He's done a tonne of shitty shitty acts through out his life finishing up with raping how own senile mother.
He's always been a shitty person who got worse and worse as he got older. It was only a matter of time until he got into real trouble.
And now he's got exactly what he deserves.
I have pity for people in shitty circumstances who try to fix their lives and fail...not for a fat, stupid slob who lived as a child until 40 years old dodged every chance to mature or grow as a person and now the piper must be paid.
I will say though:
In retrospect, I am somewhat disappointed Chris is being hit hardest with this and not when he was involved with a hit-and-run against that store employee.
Playing devil's advocate and pretending I'm his attorney for a moment: it is incredibly possible Barb was already crossing the line with Chris before he ever crossed the line with her. No proof of course, but plenty of videos of the two being creepy or Chris commenting on things they did together in the past. You can make the argument he's just a product of his upbringing, and while that's not an excuse, I think he's less likely to learn from the mistake if he can rationalize "but she did it too." (and yes, I realize Chris won't learn anything ever regardless. Still, hopefully my point is clear) He had idiots like Bella influencing him too.
He didn't have idiots like Bella influencing him during the hit-and-run though: that hit-and-run was 100% Chris and Barb. He should've been hit with harder charges back then. That's a situation where both he and Barb showed their true colors as shitty people.
Some people make excuses for Chris in this incest situation and there's a thread asking how accountable for this Chris is/how aware he is it was wrong, how much can be attributed to the influence of others, and while we can debate things like how delusional he is or how Barb may have crossed lines with him before her mind said "fuck this shit, I'm out", there's no excuse for that hit-and-run. Neither of them was exactly remorseful about it, and it seemed like a much more clear-cut case. There was no window to debate or defend them in that scenario: no, THAT situation did the best at highlighting them as shitty people, IMO.
Yeah, in the end, it doesn't really matter: Chris won't learn no matter what the charge is. All the same, I struggle to call it "justice" when Chris walked away from vindictively being part of a hate-fueled hit-and-run and the court used the kid gloves on him, but when he commits a crime against an equally shitty human being years later - let alone a crime that might have origins in the victim's potential own misbehaviors - then I don't exactly feel like "justice is served" or that "the system works." Now it just feels like even if he's convicted, people will defend him for the reasons I named above, whereas if he ended up in jail for running someone over that made him mad, there's just no defending that and it'd be agreed it's deserved.
