There were various suspicious/bad things Drew did.
Viewed in isolation, that could have a wide spectrum of explanations. Maybe we could call it weak-to-moderate evidence in favor of him being “bad”.
But then we have to factor in the choice he’s made to kinda hang around Emerson and Kat for this long. If we suppose[1] that we are very confident that Emerson and Kat are very bad people who’ve done very bad things, then, well, that doesn’t reflect very favorably on Drew. I think it is moderate-to-strong evidence that Drew is “bad”.
To “there were various suspicious/bad things Drew did,” I would reply:
I have this opposing consideration. [...] I gather that part of the reason Alice and Chloe feel this way is that Drew did try to be helpful with respect to their concerns, at least to whatever degree was required for them to ask for him to be shielded from professional consequences.
and, to “the choice he’s made to kinda hang around Emerson and Kat for this long,” I would reply:
To the extent you believe that Nonlinear has been a disfunctional environment, in significant part due to domineering characteristics of senior staff, I think that you should also believe that a junior family member beginning to work in this environment is going to have a hard time reasoning through and pushing back against it.
To the extent you believe that Nonlinear has been a disfunctional environment, in significant part due to domineering characteristics of senior staff, I think that you should also believe that a junior family member beginning to work in this environment is going to have a hard time reasoning through and pushing back against it.
Successfully pushing back against is certainly difficult. Instead, I would expect, in general, Good Person to not have a very strong relationship with their brother, Bad Person, in the first place, and either not end up working with them or quitting once they started working with them and observed various bad things.
There were various suspicious/bad things Drew did.
Viewed in isolation, that could have a wide spectrum of explanations. Maybe we could call it weak-to-moderate evidence in favor of him being “bad”.
But then we have to factor in the choice he’s made to kinda hang around Emerson and Kat for this long. If we suppose[1] that we are very confident that Emerson and Kat are very bad people who’ve done very bad things, then, well, that doesn’t reflect very favorably on Drew. I think it is moderate-to-strong evidence that Drew is “bad”.
If you don’t believe this, then of course it wouldn’t make sense to view his hanging around Emerson and Kat as evidence of him being “bad”.
To “there were various suspicious/bad things Drew did,” I would reply:
and, to “the choice he’s made to kinda hang around Emerson and Kat for this long,” I would reply:
Successfully pushing back against is certainly difficult. Instead, I would expect, in general, Good Person to not have a very strong relationship with their brother, Bad Person, in the first place, and either not end up working with them or quitting once they started working with them and observed various bad things.