>>34600234Anon I literally posted the textbook definition. Nowhere does it mention second hand or first hand account. If something cannot be substantiated it can't be substantiated. My argument is more sound in 2 ways. First and foremost, certain people cannot act as witness for the accused (their parents, lovers, friends, etc), we call this inadmissable testimony. Coworker/friend, or anyone with a senpai-kouhai relationship is inadmissable. Of course your friends will stand up for you, and coworkers may lose their job if they're instructed by management to say only good things of their coworkers. (You would understand this concept if you had friends kek)
Second, if you want to push for your head cannon definition of 'hearsay' as opposed to the actual real textbook definition, you saying x coworkers said laplus is sweet is still hearsay.
Unrelated to the definition, people act differently to different people (you would know this if you had a social life), so that's not really a good metric for who someone is. I could be really sweet to my grandma and a complete douche to my sibling. My grandma will say I'm sweet, but I'm a douche.
Now you may kys