We Shall Now Begin Ethics - Vol. 3 Ch. 12 - Cicada's Cries

[yannickq]

Hahaha I had the same thought go through my head when he said two quarters, immediately thought "you mean half?"

 

[Kuroww]

Why would I care about what happens to the wife if it causes me to be inconvenienced? Even if she just disturbed my respiratory rate I'd tell the husband. The only reason why somebody wouldn't tell the husband is if they feel some self-contrived feeling of justice.

 

[StellarIceberg]

@Kuroww it's like you're saying anyone who has a sense of morality is a pretentious person who wants to always stand on the moral high ground. Human nature is coherently greedy. The sense of morality is just another form of this. You don't help the wife who's been abused by her husband when she asks for your help though you know it. Of course, you're not legally obligated to help her. Nor are you morally inclined. If you just ignore it and say you never knew, no one could blame you. "Treat others how you want to be treated" is often referred to as the golden rule. Let's say you never helped her, and a few years passed. Maybe her situation got better, maybe it got worse. If it got better, you could've helped make it better faster. If it got worse, you could've changed that outcome for a minor inconvenience.
Suppose you're in a somewhat similar position but now you're the one asking for help. Let us assume the person you're asking for help isn't legally obligated nor inclined to help you. But still, the suffering is too much so you reach out for that thin thread of hope. But just like you did the person shuts their door. "Well karma" you think. You can't think differently cause you were offered to do something that would've allowed you to say "Why is life so unfair" in this situation. You could've helped the wife in situation one and when you didn't get help here you could curse god, maybe you could have thought at least you were better than this person. But the decisions you made led you to be abandoned like the scum you are and the worse thing is you can't complain about it.

 

[brandonvu1997]

@StellarIceBerg nice lmao get fucking wrecked @kuroww

Why would you care what happens to the wife if it causes you to be inconvenienced? I can't even begin to explain to someone who obviously lacks empathy like you. If you feel selfish enough that you don't want to put yourself in a situation for the sake of someone else, whatever. It's not really wrong for you to think about yourself that way, and I honestly, and genuinely can not fault you for that. But don't fucking bring other people down to your level just cause you yourself can't be bothered. Self-contrived feeling of justice? In a situation as black and white as what was presented, thinking that someone would only help an abused woman for the sake of self-satisfaction sounds like you just don't have a moral compass.

 

[verboten1942]

@kuroww unironically based

 

[Tori1937374738]

i was expecting comments about how cute the new character is, instead everyone turned into Socrates

 

[Bobaslave]

Lol i feel you @Tori1937374738

 

[KantotinBurat]

Ikemen mute man

 

[AngelHQ]

Right, I almost forgot the most important point of this chapter while reading the comments: he has to speak when in pain or in dire need. That's the point of the final scene... Probably too obvious and that's why nobody talked about this, but still.

 

[LordofAlI]

So just a man with few words. That's fine as long as he speaks when he needs to there's no problem being quiet most of the time. I honestly would be fine with that because talking can be tiring