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retsibsi | on: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say
It doesn't require a very strange chain of reasoning. Lots of people would agree that:

- promising monogamy to someone who loves you, and then breaking that promise, is bad and provides negative evidence about your character

and

- if you're the leader of a very powerful entity, your character is relevant even to people who don't know you personally.

There's also just the fact that when someone is famous, and it emerges publicly that they've broken some norm, there's not really a fully neutral option available to us. We can condemn their behaviour (reinforcing the norm), defend it (weakening the norm), or ignore it (also somewhat weakening the norm, especially if we make a point of ignoring it and suggest that others are silly for caring).

ryanbrunner | parent
I'm certainly not making a statement about Huang here, more of a general one, but generally speaking, when you're making judgements about infidelity as someone not part of that relationship you're working off very limited information, doubly so for a public figure that you don't know personally.

Obviously it's somewhat complicated when subordinates and Chinese spies are involved, and I'm not condoning infidelity, but IMO infidelity is a reason for a spouse to be justifiably outraged, not the public at large.