I haven't forgotten it at all.
He was annoying but he was also a moral person. Decent, intelligent. Not unkind. And it was not cruel and immoral behavior on his part, and a refusal to desist from it, that created his problem.
X, listen: Poet was Piggy, not CH. CH and you, the two lawyers, are the gang, X. You found Poet annoying. You were incited, and continue to be incited, by her weakness. You allied, and continue to ally, yourself with CH in heaping derision on her because it makes you feel superior and strong.
CH is not a Piggy, X. He was a persistent and conscienceless harasser. A persecutor. He rolled a rock off a cliff onto Poet, and though it didn't kill her, it sent her to a dark place, where she needed medical care. No amount of 'framing' can change that, and disguise the fact that you didn't and don't care about her suffering (or her husband's), which was real. You in fact seem to get off on it. You identify with the persecutor, but to let yourself get away with doing that, you have to cast him as somehow a vulnerable, helpless victim, a moral Piggy-character.
The necessity you feel to do that is something in your favor, at least. |
