(July 3, 2013 at 7:35 pm)Inigo Wrote:(July 3, 2013 at 7:31 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: 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).
How the hell do you know that? How on earth do you know what will make everyone on earth happy? I would be beyond PISSED if someone let me die without telling me that my sorry excuse of a husband cheated on me. I would want to redo my will for one.
