(July 3, 2013 at 7:31 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 3, 2013 at 7:28 pm)Inigo Wrote: Don't you care about people's welfare?
One would think that what was best for another person's welfare was to live in reality rather than exist in a delusion.
Yes, but that's not true is it? In the example she will be miserable if she finds out the truth. Either you are a git and just don't care about a person's welfare or you think it more important, morally, that someone know the truth than that she be spared great suffering. She's on her deathbed and you'd inform her that her husband played around and didn't love her. Someone who thinks that's the 'right' thing to do is, well, just plain incorrect about that (just as someone who thinks cruelty is a virtue is incorrect and needs rewiring).
