He is, in the end, considered a competent adult who gets to make his own decisions, and is ultimately the only one responsible for his actions
This is like "racism is prejudice+power" nonsense. Or for a less political comparison "a tomato is a fruit durr hurr hurr".
There are frequently multiple valid contexts' in which to define words. Only autists thinks each word has One True Definition
™. My favorite red flag for when these kinds of arguments are when people start off by saying "technically...". Technically nothing, there isn't just one universal context for all words. That's spergy.
With racism, the "prejudice+power" definition is only within the limited context of some specific academic sociological theories. (It's not even necessarily the standard sociological perspective.) And likewise with the tomato thing, tomatoes are
botanically / biologically fruits. In the much, much more common culinary sense, a tomato is a vegetable.
As this applies to Chris, only in the extremely restricted legal sense is Chris a competent adult. In everyday, colloquial speech, he's nothing close to being a competent adult. Unless you're a lawyer defending Chris or a prosecutor trying to press charges against Chris, or a judge deciding his case, there's no reason to be that pedantic.
My issue isn't with how the world, or the courts treats Chris, it's with how certain sections of KF tries to spin and distort Chris's actions and circumstances, as if no matter how Chris acts, they expect the entire public/internet to calmly step around him and ignore the flailing mongo babbling about "Hey you!! I'm da CPU Goddess with Hedgehog Superpowers doncha know? Tell err'body!!!" in the middle of the street.
No one expects everyone to ignore him. Lots of people will stare, that's unavoidable.
The problem is when those people take the next step beyond just staring and say "Chris deserves this, he can change this if he wants to".
That sort of statement is just as valid as people telling the twelve year old not to get groomed by perverts on the internet. Chris is not a competent adult.