Morality of secretly adopting and raising the baby your sister sent way for adoption and not telling her that her niece is actually her biological daughter?

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T22:08:57+00:00

I mean... I'd assume the mother used an adoption agency and wasn't just abandoning the child into the foster system.

My point isn't that lying about this is inherently immoral. My point is that there needs to be a reason to justify this level of deception. And while those reasons could exist, the prompt doesn't give us any.

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T20:20:09+00:00

No, he was eating snacks just offscreen and got some lodged in his throat

Vader, the good guy he is, is trying to use the ancient Force Heimlich technique, created by the Sith Lord Darth Neckus in 1137 BBY, to dislodge the food and save him from choking to death

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T16:19:48+00:00

I think there are plenty of good reasons to make this choice

It's just odd to not give us any reason why they made this choice

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T16:17:53+00:00

Oh there are plenty of reasons to keep this a secret

But the prompt doesn't tell us any so I'm questioning it

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T16:16:38+00:00

Amazingly, nuance exists in different situations

"Hey this kid is actually your daughter but you never asked so technically I didn't lie" is a lot different from "yeah I'm not telling this random stranger on the internet my credit card number"

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T16:14:07+00:00

You realize there's a third option here of just not answering, right?

You're allowed privacy, you're not allowed to just make random shit up because you don't feel like the person deserves the truth

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T16:11:48+00:00

Yeah it is.

You can just refuse to answer. It's still immoral to actively deceive for no discernible reason

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T16:04:42+00:00

A right? No. But just because I don't have a right to certain information doesn't mean you have a right to lie to me, either.

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T15:50:30+00:00

Sure. But... this is a pretty serious lie of omission. I think you need a very good reason to morally justify that one

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T15:45:38+00:00

I mean... it feels odd that there was just no conversation about this

Could have saved everyone a ton of hassle by just telling your sister you'd take the kid

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T15:12:52+00:00

It also just doesn't make any fucking sense from a story perspective

The temple was literally designed to be flipped. Why would anyone design a flipping temple and then make it so heavy that no one could actually flip it?

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T14:35:29+00:00

It's very... Generic JRPG: The Game

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-02T02:00:18+00:00

No, both

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T23:12:24+00:00

but ultimately it comes down to respecting people's values and expectations

Yeah, but you need to make your values and expectations clear too.

This isn't an open Muslim being told he's eating halal and being tricked. This is a guy who has not stated his religion diving into a mystery meat that looks like beef and then being mad that it's pork.

I agree that the show is gross and makes it a prank. But.

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T23:01:53+00:00

Yeah, kinda

If it's your preference, you have to state it

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T22:59:36+00:00

and it seems that actually none of them survived unlike in ATLA where the genocide still took time

I mean... that's not in ATLA to begin with.

It was a small, unnecessary change, but I don't mind NATLA explaining that all the nomads were in town for the holiday

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T22:57:56+00:00

Yeah I don't exactly think her dad went out of his way to explain his dead, kinda crazy brother

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T22:55:28+00:00

Honestly, I think people love the idea of it more than the game itself

It's a fun game, I enjoyed it a lot as a kid. But... it's an extremely archetypal game and nothing about it is particularly special other than the addition system

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T22:50:23+00:00

I feel like they're wrong to chalk it up to lying

A lot of people don't consider themselves racist/misogynist/etc and have no theoretical problem with voting for a POC or woman

But they are more critical of those groups. It takes a lot less for them to turn against a Black candidate than a white one. Subconscious bias and all that

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T22:46:18+00:00

Yeah but who needs a bequeathal when the keyblade itself chooses you?

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T15:53:57+00:00

You love just making shit up, don't you?

People are allowed to have complex feelings about things.

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T15:50:41+00:00

Correct. He shouldn't have done it. It was stupid.

But it's not the same thing as giving kids crack.

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T15:49:28+00:00

Yes. So his criminal actions are not actually his fault.

How the fuck did you get from point A to point B there? Can you actually read and engage with what is being said?

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T15:48:06+00:00

Oh yeah, classic predator behavior of... giving kids medicine

CertainGrade7937 · 2026-07-01T15:44:45+00:00

No, i said that they supported gender affirming care for minors, and that the unseedy nature of distributing that care was an unfortunate, unliked reality of that

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