Talk:Punished/@comment-25110963-20161224061556/@comment-4010415-20161224102336

Jacques is more interested in protecting the family's and company's reputation. It's bad for reputation if Weiss suddenly snaps and starts screaming at everyone in the middle of a party. Remember that, when he grabbed Weiss' arm, he said to her "You're embarrassing the family." He was more concerned about being embarrassed than he was about what had made Weiss so upset.

Honestly, the entire charity ball was just a PR stunt to make the Schnee family and company look good in the eyes of the rest of the world, rather than an actual genuine act of charity for Vale. He doesn't care about the people in Vale. He cares that people all over the world think that Atlas attacked Vale because the Schnee Dust Company is based in Atlas. If people don't trust Atlas, they might not trust the SDC, and that's bad for sales. That, and the rest of the world's distrust for Atlas is what led to Ironwood getting the council to put an embargo on Dust, which stopped the SDC from selling Dust to other kingdoms.