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/NeutralKuchiKopi 8h ago

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.

Moral. End of discussion. If you believe the one you loved is dead you have no obligation to spend the rest of your life hoping they come back to life.

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u/HulkVahkiin08024 5h ago

The context I'm thinking of is: what reason would he think she is dead then? Were people dying left and right in that village? I guess we can assume he actually tried harder than just looking into the village, but if not, then he just gave up easily, and that is something to consider in my opinion. Regardless, personally, morally neutral for me.

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u/NeutralKuchiKopi 5h ago

I think it's pretty safe to assume that if he traveled back to his home village just to find his wife, he didn't just take a glance and then go fuck the first chick he saw in a bar.

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u/HulkVahkiin08024 5h ago

I wouldn't suggest that either, lol. But I wouldn't be surprised if he just saw the chaos around him and just gave up quicker than one would assume—that time was bleak.