Just as I feel pity for the MAGA snowflakes at work, too afraid to look weak or be taken "advantage of" if they express mercy or understanding of what might cause a person to fall short and fail.

You don't have to coddle or excuse in an action or person; you have to understand where the fault is and actually work to to correct the problem, instead of just trashing it and walking away. Sometimes that means fighting. Sometimes it means negotiation. But it doesn't mean accepting.
Because problems only grow if left to themselves or put away to the side and ignored.
Kirk and his ilk are symptoms that had been coddled and taken advantage as tools for a few human embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins....

I'm thinking it's the same thing that I've read about called virtue signaling. Is that right?

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Like, on another's/others' behalf

I used "boasting" because it's only on the boaster's behalf But, yeah, basically they're the same.

but as I said, I felt sorry for his kids before he was shot, too. Political violence can be awful AND Kirk can still be a dead human louse.

His wife might have to sell/auction the enormous rock she wears (if it's real) otherwise.

They should be fine, financially speaking. Time will tell about the emotional repercussions.