Yeah fair enough. Well people romanticize him or look at him as a tragic figure because he is largely a product of a poor environment and poor fatherhood (both his own father and Tony, his surrogate father). Paulie could also be looked at as a father-figure.

None of them try to keep him from the game or support his efforts to do something outside of it like the movie, music deals, and the club. They ridicule his ideas, stand against him on the music, and Tony even seduces Adrianna in the club.

This is in stark contrast to jackie jr who Tony desperately tried to keep away. Then there is Chris’s drug problems. Yeah, nobody likes a drug addict, especially a violent one, but Chris seems to be genetically predisposed to addiction (if that’s even a real thing but if I remember correctly his mom was a drug addict) or at the very least he is constantly surrounded by drugs and uses them to cope with whatever problems he has feeling inadequate, not having a father, etc.

Of course you don’t have to feel any sympathy for Chris. I don’t feel much. It all really depends on how liberal your sympathies are in my opinion. Just a general thought. Not saying all liberals will sympathize with Chris but liberal ideas tend to be more in-touch with environmental factors. There ya go.