Talk:Jacques Schnee/@comment-2602:306:805D:8C10:A9FC:9087:2078:AC2-20180218171243/@comment-25936766-20180218201319

1) He doesn't care about money. He cares about Public Reputation. And not just his own, but the whole Schnee family's. It was quite obvious in Vol.4, even when he was giving Weiss a sermon; he barely mentions the effects her actions during the charity party had money-wise, while he nearly has a panic attack when he mentions the effects it had on their reputation.

2) You need to specify on what do people defend Jacques. He's an asshole, a terrible father, everyone agrees on that, and the only question is if he's a funny asshole or not.

But just because he's an asshole it doesn't mean he is always in the wrong. Same with Weiss: Just because she's a heroine it doesn't mean she is always in the right. And of course, in any case it doesn't help that Vol.4 utterly failed to make him look actually abusive and corrupt to the extent Weiss and Blake presented him as.

There are only 2 small instances where his "abuse" isn't at least partially justified by the context, and we never see how he treats his Faunus workers. In fact, the only thing we get about them is that he pays them the same as the rest of the mining staff. Actually, we never even see him work to begin with.

So in summary, he's an asshole, but he still has a point from time to time, and ignoring that just because he's an asshole would be very childish.