That’s an interesting point, is forgiveness a right when the situations are extreme? Similar to us understanding when people cannibalize others in extreme survival scenarios. The only thing I think separates the various scenarios as a morality vs blatantly illegal or wrong is the other parties consent and understanding of the overall situation.
Edit: Also if roles where reversed and it was Shinji as the older person in the scenario would you still say the same?
I think forgiveness is the wrong metric. It’s simply about understanding.
If someone ate my child to survive, I would probably never forgive them, but I could understand.
As this post illustrates, society deems female predators as less of a moral threat. If this post was from the POV of a woman saying “where were all the pedos when I was a teen” people would lose their shit.
I’m a victim of this intuition myself, though I justify it by considering the potential for physical abuse is much higher with men, even though mentally, statutory rape is probably comparable.
That’s an interesting point, is forgiveness a right when the situations are extreme? Similar to us understanding when people cannibalize others in extreme survival scenarios. The only thing I think separates the various scenarios as a morality vs blatantly illegal or wrong is the other parties consent and understanding of the overall situation.
Edit: Also if roles where reversed and it was Shinji as the older person in the scenario would you still say the same?
I think forgiveness is the wrong metric. It’s simply about understanding.
If someone ate my child to survive, I would probably never forgive them, but I could understand.
As this post illustrates, society deems female predators as less of a moral threat. If this post was from the POV of a woman saying “where were all the pedos when I was a teen” people would lose their shit.
I’m a victim of this intuition myself, though I justify it by considering the potential for physical abuse is much higher with men, even though mentally, statutory rape is probably comparable.