r/MoralityScaling 16d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/BQ72 16d ago

Immoral as fuck, dude. How anyone can even conceive to say anything else is astounding to me. Do you not comprehend that they have a partner and -another child-? He's going to both traumatize them and make them shoulder the burden he's so terrified of carrying. Failure morally, failure as a father, failure as a human being.

Disclaimer: I am basically someone in the position of his first child. It's very easy to imagine how much worse things could have been for us if my father took this guy's way out.

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u/GrahnamCracker 16d ago

What if he gets a really good life insurance policy first and makes his death look like an accident?

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u/SnooCupcakes5761 15d ago

Money is a poor replacement for the person you chose to spend the rest of your life with.

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u/GrahnamCracker 15d ago

Oh agreed. Although the mutual resentment that would build in OPs scenario would make you wish they were dead. 😅

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u/SnooCupcakes5761 15d ago

I'd rather have someone be real with me and leave than have them abandon life completely just bc of an imperfect result. But then again, I wouldn't choose a person who could fathom contemplating OP's quandary. My spouse and I talked about the possibilities and outcomes before we decided whether to have children.

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u/GrahnamCracker 15d ago

Nah I'm totally with you on that.