i just don't understand sometimes.

hypothetically speaking: there's this guy i know, right? we work together and get along great. his behavior peaks on the erratic side, but i just considered it "eccentric". one day, a student who is not his is complaining about her crazy mother. he tosses a bottle of 7 xanax (prescribed to him) at her and says put a couple of these in your mom's drink. the student holds onto them for a couple weeks, and decides this isn't right. she hands them in to her coach. her coach turns them into the director. the guy gets fired and arrested. he signs a statement stating that all of the above is true. he is kept in jail for two days and has a preliminary trial date set. seems pretty straight forward, right? i thought so.

regardless of malicious intent, it was a thoughtless and irresponsible act on his behalf. i, nor anyone else, believes him to be a horrible person or considers this incident to be a true reflection of the type of person he is. he has to go through the judicial process as a consequence of his actions. he is an adult. he should feel responsible.

yesterday i hear that people i am close to went to the trial to "represent his good side". wtf?! first off, this is none of your business. second, he is an adult and he made a bad decision. what is it about humanity that compels people to always make excuses? what happened to accountability? what kind of examples do we set for our children when we attempt to defend people that are clearly wrong?

part of me thinks this would only happen in a place where a rich, stay-at-home mother has nothing better to do with her time than poke her nose where it doesn't belong. this would only happen in a place where lawyers are scum sucking bottom feeders who, in even the most basic of scenarios, could not tell right from wrong. this would only happen in a place where everyone thought they were entitled to a fucking opinion, that, in the grand scheme, doesn't mean jack shit. this would only happen in a place where everyone is, in this situation, self-righteous enough to say well i wouldn't have turned them in, i would have gone straight to him. this could ruin his life, and it was clearly a mistake. these are the same people who i am certain that, if this were their child, they would be the first ones to be up in arms, wanting to sue everything under the sun and it would be a much worse situation than it currently is.

this doesn't surprise me in the least, that people only overlook laws when it is convenient. it just baffles me that, at 26-years of age, i can tell the difference between what's right and wrong, and people in their 40's with multiple children cannot. i am disappointed in those who chose to get themselves involved, because, in some ways, their involvement only makes him look worse and gives him a false sense of hope and reason that say what he did was ok.