Now that we know that Chris fucked his mother and seems to have ABSOLUTELY NO REMORSE, is it safe to say that Chris deserved the bullying? All of the touchy feely, lovequest bullshit was just a pretense to everything that would inevitably happen. We thought it was goofy at the time and he was just an odd childlike character but a lot of the evidence was there, most notably the depraved sex obsession and the lack of shame around it. Drinking his own semen, saving it in containers where his mother kept her milk and orange juice, this is the stuff of a serial killer.
The longstanding story was that Chris was bullied and harassed and didn't deserve it. Well maybe it was NECESSARY to keep him in check, keep him at least somewhat aware that there was a world outside of his house and that his behavior was wrong, indecent, rude, and strange? Most of the bullying merely highlighted how Chris was naive and not able to learn from past experience. Had he learned who not to trust, much of that would not have happened. Perhaps, to some degree, the bullies were attempting to teach him this lesson, if just subconsciously.
Bullying is awful but at the same time it is a great opportunity to discipline and teach someone, usually hard lessons, about life. A better person may have learned from the abuse, yet Chris was unable, or perhaps unwilling.
But now that we know the kind of monster Chris would become, should we feel bad about any of it? Would anyone feel bad about bullying someone who raped his dying mother? And yet all the evidence that something like this would happen was already in motion the first time that we discovered Chris.
I feel mixed about the situation. My entire framework of thought surrounding Chris is changing and I am forced to now see him as more of a monster than a manchild. Trolls did a lot to him but as far as I know they never directly forced him to abuse his mother. That is something that is even worse than convincing an idiot to put crayola in their ass, sit on a cake or hump a Playstation 3. Chris could have said no to any of those things. Barb tried to say no and Chris didn't even care.