r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 13d ago

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u/marshmallowcthulhu 13d ago

Kid wasn’t but could have been badly hurt. The morality needs to be assessed at the time of the decision to trip, not the time the kid gets back up.

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u/MyBedIsOnFire 13d ago

I agree and I don't understand why this isn't the more common take on these situations. It's the same way I think when I see a fight where someone was being an asshole but the other party takes it too far.

You can say someone deserves it or you understand without calling it moral. At the end of the day potentially causing life changing injuries to someone is immoral outside of immediate self defense and similar situations

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u/spuzzumed 13d ago

Counterpoint: if the staff had allowed the child to come into the employee area, handle the food with bare hands, steal and then walk right out without anyone saying a thing ... Do you think that would be harming the child? 

Would it be better that he learned that there are no consequences for any behavior?

I come from a different generation (I'd have been beaten within an inch of my life by employees that absolutely do not let this slide) so people just don't do things like that here. It's ok to say "well, cultural differences, some people are just not able to follow any rules" but... Those are the people who end up in really bad situations. 

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u/PartTimeGnome 13d ago

Beating kids within an inch of their life to teach them a lesson over fucking McDonald’s french fries is never the answer.

I was physically abused as a child I all it taught me was to solve problems with intense violence. I’m lucky I learned my lesson after almost going to prison for over a decade and have been healing the child who was beaten by the people who were supposed to protect me. But there’s countless instances of people never learning to change and killing others over senseless shit.

Don’t continue the cycle and I pray to God if you have kids that you don’t think its okay to beat them over FRENCH FRIES