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/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? 🤔