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Age and morality: What would you have done? (NOT a discussion topic)

posted 15 years ago by Mister_Strife
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As Morgan Freeman says to Casey in the movie:

"You walk away from it, you may not regret it when you get home. You may not regret it for a year, but when you get to where I am, I promise you, you will."

I'm curious to see if there IS, in fact, a correlation between age and agreeing/disagreeing with Casey.

So, the point of this topic is simply to state your age and to state whether you agree or disagree with the following statement (again, this is NOT a discussion topic):

"Casey Affleck was right in returning the child to her biological mother."

(Disagreeing means you think he should have left the child with Morgan Freeman; no other options are considered).

Anyway:

20
Agree

[–] neverstandinalone (641) 7 years ago

Disagreed
Nunya-so ya know I'm old
Female-you should have added this..

As a side note, his decision to have the girl returned to her mother was, in his heart, the Right one, however, his agreeing to stay with the girl while her mother went out was also saying he would be 'watching out' for the girl until she was able to look out for herself (adult).

EDIT: There ARE consequences for our decisions. He made the correct decision, yet, he realized sooner rather than later the extent of his responsibility to that particular consequence. THIS decision for him wasn't a gray area. He was thinking 'black or white', as many people do (and let G_d sort it out).

Him killing the pedophile was still a 'black or white', or 'best for those now versus future outcome of letting the pedo live' decision.

I personally would have left the child with the couple. I also would have shot the pedophile.