Ie ga Moete Jinsei Dou Demo Yoku Natta kara, Nokotta Nakenashi no Kin de Dark Elf no Dorei o Katta. - Vol. 2 Ch. 11.1 - I've Done It... (1)
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Yeah, dude, definitely the better choice to let the mother live in the stress of uncertainty forever, rather than to bring a closure to the matter. If it was a young man, the mother could perhaps convince herself that the boy had had enough and left to see the world, but since it was a small kid, that would be far too delusional.
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What a weird chapter
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PR/Notes....she's right, I'ma be honest, I honestly don't feel bad for the kid, I feel more bad for his mother
People talking about closure.
But no one seem to think the mother is on the verge of insanity.
Just imagine, she just lost her husband, her kid is the only thing left for her. Now she just hear that her son tried to steal a drug that can save his father but ended up poisoned to death by a monster. How would that feel?
This is a situation with no correct answer and is something happened again and again, especially during war time.
You just never know how people would react about it. And inaction is also a choice, as great or bad as it might be.
But no one seem to think the mother is on the verge of insanity.
Just imagine, she just lost her husband, her kid is the only thing left for her. Now she just hear that her son tried to steal a drug that can save his father but ended up poisoned to death by a monster. How would that feel?
This is a situation with no correct answer and is something happened again and again, especially during war time.
You just never know how people would react about it. And inaction is also a choice, as great or bad as it might be.
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IMO, Honesty is still the better policy here. Would you rather she venture out and lose her life trying to find her kid? No. Better she learns the harsh truth and hopefully rebuild her life.
That's what I said about how you never know how people would react.
And also why I brought up the topic of war.
Most of the time, people just give up somewhere. But some would still keep the hope.
But as you asked me if not letting the mother know and have her venture out to her death, I would like to ask you what you'd feel like if you let her know her son is already dead, which in turn lead to her giving in to grief and cut off her own life? Remember, the problem I'm saying is that her mental state is unstable. That's the most dangerous factor at the moment.
If you still want her to have closure, wait until when she has calmed down and tell her would be good.
Otherwise, inaction is as good a choice as the rest. Since there's no perfect solution here.
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You know some of you are talking about closure but the likely outcome of telling her what happened, would be her ending her life. How can she bear to live an a world where her husband died and the one flicker of hope and purpose she had, her son, also died whilst trying to find cute for said husband.
There's no right or wrong decision here. Only lesser evil. In my mind giving her purpose for the rest of her life, to keep searching to perhaps find her son might be slightly more humane than snuff out every glimmer of hope, take away any reasoning to live and purpose and then leave her an empty shell..
Saying naive things like "she would move on with her life" is just wishful thinking. In my mind this was the lesser evil..
There's no right or wrong decision here. Only lesser evil. In my mind giving her purpose for the rest of her life, to keep searching to perhaps find her son might be slightly more humane than snuff out every glimmer of hope, take away any reasoning to live and purpose and then leave her an empty shell..
Saying naive things like "she would move on with her life" is just wishful thinking. In my mind this was the lesser evil..
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Idk I’m pretty sure it’s standard practice in every military to inform families when their kin has a confirmed death, and for that matter it’s just standard practice in every country for every single person that dies
they don‘t and can’t know how the mom would react and that’s not really their responsibility, what is their responsibility the actions they took and that includes letting people know what they did
least they could have done is tell the authorities what happened and let them handle it from there, I mean there was a whole ass demon smuggling operation right off shore
I would argue that it's a different matter with military since there are obligations from the country regarding the employment of soldiers. Thus, they have a duty to inform of the death or missing of the soldier regardless of "closure" on part of the family.
Here, there's no obligation whatsoever. So I don't know if it can be applied by the same logic.
Informing the authorities though, yes, they could have done that but clearly didn't.
If they did, any problem about the death of the kid will fall into the reponsibilities of said authority too. Then these people can choose the time and how to convey the matter as they'd be sticking around, unlike the protagonist's group.
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Unless this is going to be used as an example of OP making the wrong choice, Author-san needs someone to sit him down and explain respect and empathy.
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This is simply false, but lack of knowledge in medieval times probably made it sound more believable.
I don't know how you think it was false. But yes, modern time having so much information and ways to carry said information around, it's more often than not you find who you look for. But it's a matter of fact that with all that technology, people still go missing without being found. Especially in time of wars and disasters. But even if it's not in such large scale events, people go missing all the time, be it through crimes or that's just what they ended up being. And the effort to search for them isn't limitless either, so there's something called "declared death in absentia". Basically, they are treated as death because they went missing for too long. This, is what resulted from the ones left behind giving up amount to.
I won't say that the families/friends/relatives would just stop wanting to know, but them deciding to move on, or stop to actively search is a common aftermath to such missing cases. The Wikipedia has a whole list for such missing persons, and while the cases might stay open, it's not the same as fully active.
You do understand why MC did what he did (or didn't), right?
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