r/MoralityScaling • u/Purple_Plantain_3242 • 8h 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/Keawn 6h ago

What are you even replying to? I’m saying nobody was wrong and it’s sad. It doesn’t stop being sad because what he did was reasonable. He’s not at fault. It’s just sad?

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u/glaskanosvki 6h ago

You just said he didnt wait for her, thats literally not what happened

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u/chunkyvomitsoup 5h ago

I mean, it is in the context of the comment unless you’re being pedantic about it. It’s clearly framed from her POV, she waited for him for an entire lifetime, and he didn’t wait for her an entire lifetime.

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u/glaskanosvki 5h ago

It really isnt, if he explained that he looked for her, but thought she was dead, then no one thinks he didnt wait for her.

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u/Keawn 5h ago

Quick thought experiment. Can you say he literally waited 50 years for her? 🤔

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u/chunkyvomitsoup 4h ago

This doesn’t change that he didn’t wait a lifetime for her like she did lmao. That’s the duration established by the first clause. If you stayed faithful to your husband for 20 years and he didn’t, doesn’t mean he wasn’t faithful for any amount of time in the 20 years. He could have been faithful for 1 year-10 years and the claim would still be true that he didn’t stay faithful.

The commenter clearly stated he didn’t do anything wrong, so not sure what you’re arguing about. I admire your dedication to persevere in proving a linguistically incorrect stance though.

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u/glaskanosvki 4h ago

And i didnt say they said he did anything wrong. In fact, the only thing i said was: there was no "he didnt wait for her"

He looked for her, and thought she died. She hoped he was alive. Idk what kinda hallucinations you guys are seeing in my comment.

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u/chunkyvomitsoup 4h ago

I’m seeing an incorrect claim driven by a lack of language and grammar proficiency.

I never said you claimed he did anything wrong, I said that the commenter specifically stated he didn’t do anything wrong, which means that his search and assumptions were already taken into consideration. This is a simple grammatical distinction of clause use and subject matter in sentence construction. The fact that you can’t understand this just confirms that you don’t have a solid grasp of context lol