People have mental health issues sometimes. Sad, not disgusting.
Half credit? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm curious, was there a reason you specifically mentioned western society? Is there another region of the world that handles it better?
Doesn't it grow tiring, constantly making excuses for people?
Not if you're a compassionate person. If not, some bitterness may apply, but its only going to eat you.
Edit: I've also been on the other side of this. Seeing loved ones and family in this situation is _fucked up_, and leaves lasting emotional damage.
“It was really important to me that people understood that this was absolutely not a story about my rotten dad and the terrible things he did,” Thompson also said. “I don’t think there’s anything really special [in my story] in that aspect. Probably lots and lots of fathers and sons go through the same kind of process, it’s just their dads aren’t famous.”
Hunter Thompson had a very rare talent, I often found his writings hilarious even when I didn't agree with the views he articulated.
He had one child, who called him a "basket case"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/12/juan-thompson-...
His resulting memoir nonetheless gives the impression that the good man in Hunter S Thompson was sometimes hard to find. There were long, late-at-night arguments that he, as a child, would try to mediate. Mostly, he writes in the book, he ended up taking his mother, Sandy’s, side. “[My father] didn’t care what she was trying to say, he cared about breaking her,” he said. In the book, Thompson recalls his father’s “deliberate distortions and carefully chosen words that would inflict maximum hurt”.
Hunter killed himself while his only son and only grandson were visiting. Disgusting and traumatizing.