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RNT Episode 4: Is Monica Sells Morally Culpable for what happens in Storm Front?
Talby16:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 02, 2025, 10:02:53 PM ---However Monica's background cannot be put aside, it is part of the picture.. If your partner bullied you, if you had no self esteem to begin with because you had been bullied all of your life, if you loved your partner in spite of everything, you might go along.. Does it change the fact that you helped? No, but neither are you totally responsible for your actions.
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I have been thinking long and hard about this question. I have a hard time removing all moral culpability from someone regardless of what they went through. Actions need to be interpreted in light of circumstances, but circumstances don't justify all actions or inactions. What Monica went though is horrible and she was put in an awful position, but, in my opinion, circumstances do not wipe the slate clean and remove all culpability.
--- Quote from: Mira on May 02, 2025, 10:02:53 PM ---To be morally responsible I believe you also have to be able to think rationally, Monica wasn't.
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By this logic any moral culpability for any action committed in the heat of the moment or out of passion could be excused because the person was not thinking rationally in that moment.
--- Quote from: Mira on May 02, 2025, 10:02:53 PM ---Because she wasn't morally culpable, her problems started long before she met Victor.
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I doubt that you and I will ever come to agreement on this subject and that is ok. It takes all perspectives to make a village.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I have been thinking long and hard about this question. I have a hard time removing all moral culpability from someone regardless of what they went through. Actions need to be interpreted in light of circumstances, but circumstances don't justify all actions or inactions. What Monica went though is horrible and she was put in an awful position, but, in my opinion, circumstances do not wipe the slate clean and remove all culpability.
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No? Do you blame someone suffering from mental illness? In fact because of the abuse she had suffered all of her life, Monica could not be rational in these matters.
--- Quote ---By this logic any moral culpability for any action committed in the heat of the moment or out of passion could be excused because the person was not thinking rationally in that moment.
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Apples to oranges, Monica isn't a rational person acting out in the heat of the moment nor out of passion. She was and is a victim, suffering from a long list of emotional and mental issues stemming from her life time as a victim of abuse.
Just Googled it.
--- Quote ---What are the long-term effects of childhood trauma and abuse?
Problems now concretely linked to child abuse and neglect include behavioral and achievement problems in school; heart, lung and liver disease; obesity and diabetes; depression, anxiety disorders, and increased suicide attempts; increased criminal behaviors, illicit drug use and alcohol abuse; increased risky sexual ...
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You are blaming the victim here, Monica is a victim here every bit as much as Victor's other victims.
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