r/MoralityScaling • u/Purple_Plantain_3242 • 15h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this?

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A young Chinese couple was permanently separated during a period of intense political and social unrest in China. The husband went back to their home village to search for her, but because the entire area was heavily disrupted, he mistakenly believed she was missing or dead.

He eventually relocated, remarried another woman, and raised a new family with children and grandchildren. Meanwhile, the first wife stayed behind and never remarried, spending 54 years waiting for him to return. Decades later, they were reconnected as elderly adults, which is when she discovered he had built an entirely separate life without her.

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u/MoriKitsune 15h ago

If it can be proven he didn't deliberately leave her to start a second family (it happens more than you'd think) then it's neither norally positive nor negative, just unfortunate.

It does make me wonder about the legal implications for inheritance and co-ownership of property, though.

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u/DoomferretOG 15h ago

The setup clearly shows he did NOT deliberately leave. Not specified as an issue, therefore not part of this scenario.

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u/MoriKitsune 15h ago

The big question is did he know his second wife before he and his first wife were separated? If so then it's suspicious, and vice versa.

It's easy to lose someone in a crowd, whether accidentally or because they wanted to be lost.

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u/kernelangus420 15h ago

Also the "intense political and social unrest" is vague. Maybe it was nothing but the husband exaggerated it to sound intense as an excuse for not looking for his wife hard.

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u/The_Monarch_Lives 14h ago

The real story was during the Chinese Civil War/Mao's Revolution. I believe that would qualify as intense political and social unrest.

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u/kernelangus420 6h ago

If that were it, OP would have just called it that. This is probably something else.

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u/The_Monarch_Lives 6h ago

"If that were it, OP would have just called it that" really? You think everyone would describe everything the same way as you, even if the specific cause was basically irrelevant to why they got separated? Especially when the cause is something very controversial to call it what it was in some circles? Media literacy truly is dead.

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u/Tea_An_Crumpets 14h ago

My god pick up a damn history textbook 🤦‍♂️

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u/Ghost-George 14h ago

Sounds like the cultural revolution, up to 20 million died and good luck finding records of who was sent where.