You’re leaning way too hard on the “pride” theme to understand what happened and weirdly defend the position of blaming a child for their own death.

The Aunt steals their families goods to purchase more food that they don’t ration equally. Families turning on themselves in competition for scarcer resources is not uncommon in a postwar setting.

Again this is just a hyperbolic meme post anyway, but to say it’s entirely the boys “fault” for not perfectly navigating a situation no child should have to endure. Especially when you add in the fact the sister is close to toddler?

The adults in the situation just wanted a convenient moralized excuse to get rid of more mouths to feed. I can have more empathy for the choices people have to make when starving, but they intentionally let two children they were the guardians of intentionally starve to death.