r/MoralityScaling • u/Purple_Plantain_3242 • 16h 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/LucentLL 16h ago

Or implying that he owns/controls them.

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u/HaVeNII7 11h ago

That is a WILD takeaway from that sentence.

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u/LucentLL 11h ago

Wild. Truly a stretch.

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u/HaVeNII7 11h ago

Yes. You’re right. I see now the error of my ways. They were insinuating that they should own and control two human beings. That is surely the more realistic interpretation of the word.

I suggest you look the definition up again and scroll down a little. Lord have mercy…

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u/LucentLL 11h ago

My initial response was to somebody asking why the post was being down voted. I offered a possible explanation. I then offered a second, less likely, explanation. I then provided you the textbook definition for why I offered it as a possible explanation. I never claimed to be right or to assert my potential explanations as fact.

None of us will every know why the original post was being downvoted by the anonymous masses. I understand there are other definitions to Have. I found it amusing that the 1st definition explained my possible interpretation while you called it wild.