Maybe Madoff’s son killed himself because everyone kept comparing him to his father. If people would just take each person as they are, and not base anything on who their parents are/were, maybe he would have been ok to say “my dad was a crook but I am not…”
Or maybe he killed himself because he was a crook but only his father was sitting in jail. Perhaps he was in on it but his father said “dont admit it- its bad enough one of us has to sit”. But that’s neither here nor there.