Talk:Schnee Dust Company/@comment-84.101.90.176-20171129223309/@comment-25936766-20171222133157

Which is why I said "Manslaughter" - in this case Involuntary Manslaughter - which is an actual crime, lesser than murder but still not justifiable or excusable, and not something one would be allowed to walk away from without consequence.

The main difference is that murder has intent and premeditation behind it, while manslaughter doesn't. Voluntary Manslaughter is when someone was provoked enough to try to hurt the victim and in the rage ended up killing them. Often called a "in-the-heat-of-passion" crime.

Involuntary Manslaughter is when the killer didn't even have any intentions of hurting the victim, let alone killing them, but ended up doing so one way or another, generally due to being careless or due to lacking skill at whatever they were doing, legal or ilegal.

By the way, the punishment for Manslaughter is Imprisonment.

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Now, regarding the slap: She got it because, to Jacques, she stepped out of line, and due to the way the Charity Party scene was written, she definitely deserved it.

>She yelled at the guests out of nowhere, from Jacques's perspective. He grabs her (harshly, but still) to stop her, and she ends up summoning a Boarbatusk, which would've killed the Trophy Wife if Ironwood didn't happen to be in the area.

>Then, she doesn't seem to give any single damn about any of the things she did (including nearly killing someone), or about any consequence that could result from her actions.

>Instead, she demands to be allowed to leave Atlas. In other words, she demands to be given what she wants, after yelling at the guests and nearly killing someone, without even thinking if she deserves it at the time.

>And when Jacques reasonably doesn't give her what she wants, she instead insults him, attacking him in his biggest sensitivity. And that's when Jacques actually slaps her, after a very audible gasp of surprise.

Jacques was already in a bad mood thanks to Weiss, and Weiss was being quite the inmature brat at the time. So regardless of whether Weiss was right or wrong about him with that line, that personal attack was basically the last straw for his patience.

It certainly doesn't help that Vol.4 utterly failed to show us Jacques doing any sort of shady business practice or even mentioning them.

And the whole bit about marrying her mom just for her name wasn't even mentioned until a whole Volume later, making it feel like an afterthought by the writers, like "Oh, we failed to make Jacques look like a total, unforgivable, unexcusable asshole, let's make Weiss say this to fix the problem".