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Originally Posted by roseylovestosho  This is solely my opinion- so please only take it as that. In my experience, people have trouble understanding that people are not either ALL GOOD or ALL BAD. This is often exemplified when people commit horrendous acts, and then you have people interviewed on TV saying "I had no idea she/he was capable of this, they were always so nice..." or a very contemporary example when Angelina Jolie was viewed like a homewrecker because Brad and Jennifer Aniston ended their relationship and then subsequently Brad and Angelina started dating. Her humanitarian efforts were undervalued (by the masses) as something a guilty person does (when in fact she was involved in many humanitarian issues way before her supposed affair with Brad). What I'm trying to say in a roundabout way is that people have a hard time accepting that a callous murderer MIGHT have had good times with her daughter (i.e., baby showers, pictures with her daughter etc) because how can someone who doesn't care about their daughter do such things? I'm not saying that everyone is like this, it's just something I've realized about most people I've come across...people that do good things can't possibly be bad, right? And vice versa people that do bad things can't be good, right? As always we need to think of the good vs bad thing in terms of a continuum and not a dichotomy...and I think that listing "normal" things and events such as baby showers might put Casey into the "good" category and take her out of the "bad" one...if that makes sense? Sorry for the rant. |
I see what you are saying. I know if I were on the jury though I would not be swayed by events 2-3 years earlier. I think bad people can have good moments and vice versa. But it would not impact whether I thought she killed her child because she had a baby shower.