So you already thought your mom was immoral and treacherous then? |
Maybe she thought her mother was a human being with strengths and weaknesses. Maybe she knew enough about her parents' relationship to understand that there had been struggle or loneliness. Maybe she's the kind of person who has compassion and humility. |
Human is burning the toast, shrinking a sweater, using unkind words when mad... throwing your family under the bus... is not just being human it's sucking as a human. Just own it don't try to down play it. |
Since what, 1/3 - 1/2 of all people cheat, it is pretty human to cheat. It isn't pretty, it isn't kind. but it is human. |
| Maybe she hasn't bought into the fairytale. |
Thank you. |
Some do. About illegal aliens. Or people who kill others by accident or in self-defense. Context matters, PP. I can see how teenagers would be devastated by the breakup of their entire world. But adults with lives of their own... not so much, really. |
Since what 1/3 of woman are raped, it's pretty human to be raped. No f-tard. Just because tons of people suck doesn't mean it human to suck. It feels better to use "majority" to feel normal..."human", but it not human. It's inhumane. |
You seem to be prone to filling the gaps. The golf guy said their relationship is cordial at this point. He probably bled out in the divorce So all this talk about the high road. She may have been a truly amazing person. She may have been a perfectly average person. No need to write the story that's not yours.
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Yeah. It kid of does
Cheating is inhumane only to the very young. They are not aware yet of things people do to each other that are truly inhuman. And THAT is human too. |
Denial |
I am not sure that I agree with this assessment. So would you say it was pretty human to support slavery because many did, and therefore slavery was not as disgusting? If I found out that my parent cheated, I will lose something for them. I would not call it respect, but I will look at them a tiny bit differently. |
| People, there's a difference between human/inhuman and humane/inhumane. All kinds of bad things can be both human and inhumane. |
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I wouldn't have cared if I'd found out one of my parents was cheating. They had amd still have a terrible marriage. They slept with their bedroom door open most of the time. My mother was extremely emotionally abusive toward my father. If he'd left she most likely would have had full custody in that day and age and she would have been able to abuse us more (he rarely protected us but at least he didn't leave).
If I'd learned he still had some human emotion in him and found an outlet I'd have been fine. I knew she deserved nothing. And now I'd probably be happy she had a come uppance. If she slept around she might have been happier. He's a dull drunk. |
Humans are generally fairly disgusting in their natural state. I can't see how you can argue with that unless you're completely myopic and satisfied with the sanitized version of the world fed to yo by American media. It's irrelevant for this specific discussion whether you personally support slavery or don't. What's relevant is there are more enslaved humans in the world today than ever before. This is what humans are currently do to each other and to each other's children. Is it disgusting? Obviously. Do people support it? I would hope not. But most turn a blind eye and allow it to happen day in and day out. Don't kid yourself, we're all complicit in this. It is part of human experience, ergo it's human. Another human thing is empathy. But empathy is learned, most often by suffering. In other words, unless you're able to experience the trappings of a failed marriage yourself, you'll find it difficult to empathize with a parent who was less than a picture-perfect human being. For better or worse, most relationships fail miserably. Please we live in a society that often makes it difficult to walk away from it (for good reasons). I'd argue that most adults would be more tolerant to their parents' indiscretions. |