Knowing Your Triggers XII

 

At several points during Netflix's documentary The Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal, the survivors of a fatal boat crash attributed to Paul Murdaugh, who would later be shot to death along with his mother, talked about their partying practices and under-aged drinking. Sometimes they did it with the permission of Paul's parents, Alex and Maggie, the other shooting victim. 

According to the documentary, the night of the fatal boating accident, Paul used his older brother's driver's license to purchase copious amounts of alcohol that the six friends drank on the boat that Paul piloted to an oyster roast. After the oyster roast, Paul and one of his friends went for more drinks at a bar before heading back home. The other five objected to Paul driving the boat, since he was highly intoxicated. But he prevailed and subsequently crashed the boat into a bridge. One of the friends, Mallory Beach, was thrown from the boat and lost.

Over the course of the seven days during which divers searched for the young woman's body, the survivors and their family members who were interviewed said they prayed to God. They never said what kind of intervention they were seeking for but the whole matter of praying for help out of a tragic situation that they created seems pretty arrogant and presumptuous and is likely why many people have so little respect for such Christian virtue signaling. 

Not once did one of the four survivors of the crash express remorse for behavior that they recorded on their phones and that were included in the documentary, apparently without embarrassment or regret. They poured their disdain on Paul Murdaugh even though they were active participants in the very behavior that led to the tragic death.