let life speak

Alfonso 2022-03-23 09:01:47

When taking applied ethics classes, I often encounter various moral disputes about practical issues, such as whether single women should buy sperm to conceive to become mothers, such as whether homosexuals should legally marry or even raise children, and so on. The teacher will ask, what do you think? Then everyone argued for a long time, until the bell rang after class, packed up and left. And the problem is still the problem. To adapt the recently popular sentence pattern, it is: you discuss or not discuss, the predicament is always there, and it will not go away.

Of course, I am not denying the significance of discussing these dilemmas, otherwise ethics will be reduced to a language game, only for a few old-fashioned pedants to fight with pen. But ethics involving practice is not a vegetable market. Everyone is playing tricks, and it's over. Theoretical returns to theory, and the status quo returns to the status quo. Sadly, this is the reality of most discussions I've seen.

What is even more annoying is that there is always a person who is used to putting on a theoretical hat and advocating some opinions that make you laugh and laugh. One of the typical reasons for resolutely opposing gay marriage is that it will cause imitative reactions or incentive effects, which will eventually lead to the harmony of the world, the obstruction of human reproduction, and the extinction of the race. This kind of excuse sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? With the same reasoning, if imitation and incentives are so easily rampant, shouldn't all prisons that do not effectively reduce crime also be abolished? Perhaps prison is not a good counter-example, but an argument exemplified by experience can easily be defeated by experience. Such a simple truth should be a consensus.

So this movie is a resounding slap in the face for some people [ouch, I finally pulled over~].

A simple relationship between characters, a family composed of two women, two children born through artificial sperm donation, and a sperm donor who suddenly broke in. Simple plot, life is worn down by time into the slow lane, and as a result, there are some accidents, then conflict, then make up, and then return to peace. Such a bland story unfolds in a gentle narrative style. At the end of the play, the clenched hands are still in the familiar palms.

If there is no les character, if there is no sperm donation and childbirth drama [a word of nonsense, you know], then isn't this movie a portrayal of our daily life? Even compared to some of the bloody stories around, this drama is more intimately close to the original appearance of life. Adolescent children have self-concept that is rebellious in the eyes of adults; husband and wife [wife, husband and wife] have been together for a long time, and after the passion is gone, they begin to doubt their place in each other's hearts; wandering for many years, seeing others A middle-aged man with a happy family and the idea of ​​settling down. It's so common to see these people, it's like seeing fragments of our own past, present and future lives. These things are all too common. They don’t matter to others, but they constitute our troubles. We are unable to solve them, so we choose to avoid them.

Because we are all the same. The setbacks and difficulties encountered along the way, the resulting fear and panic, as well as the reflection and open-mindedness afterwards. Few lucky ones can escape it. Therefore, they cherish each other, so they hate each other late, so they look at each other and laugh at each other. Why point fingers at other people's lives with an exaggerated sense of moral superiority? One of you are eligible? Second, do you really understand?

The most considerate part of this film is that it has no prejudice and expands the narrative more. Unlike ordinary gay movies, either they are used to emphasizing bitterness and bitterness and tears in the les scenes, which makes people see the word "miserable"; or they are framed in utopia, with pleasant scenery and more beautiful colors. It's touching, except for the crooked love na love na, I can't detect a trace of human fireworks. But what you see here is just an ordinary family with a sense of worldliness, full of quarrels and love, marriage itch, lustful temptation, and many troubles in the growth of children. Of course, there are turmoil, who will live in peace and prosperity all their lives. The most important thing is that if they both love the family deeply, they are still family. It doesn't matter, does it matter?

At this time, someone will jump out and say that it was all filmed to bluff people. The real les family must not be so "normal", and the children raised must be mentally unsound. I don't know any of this, so I can't refute it. But I noticed a clip from a movie where Joni, a raised girl, was in a bad mood after learning about her mother's cheating. She probably felt that her mother's upbringing was actually a lie that she couldn't even do. Agitated, she intends to take advantage of Jiuxing and her boyfriend to try Yunyu for the first time. But after a heated kiss, Joni backed away. Although still angry, she did not indulge herself because of her mother's behavior. So you see, the power of "examples" is actually not that great.

Not all bad behavior is imitated, and not all depravity is induced. A person decides to abandon morality, not because it is the moral corruption of others, but depends on whether he wants to throw himself into the arms of the devil. A person who will be tempted is only because his will is weak, and condemning the inducement is only a sign of his cowardice. In the same way, a les family is abnormal, and whether a single-parent family can raise normal children is only about whether the person who makes up the family is a normal person. Heterosexual complete family is not a truth. Of course, if you insist on saying that les itself is not normal, then I have nothing to say. Regarding "normality", many great thinkers have made special expositions, but I know that I am superficial and dare not argue.

But I know it's a virtue to keep your mouth shut when you don't understand.

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  • Jules: I need to say something. Um, it's no big secret your mom and I are in hell right now, and, uh... Bottom line is, marriage is hard. It's really fuckin' hard. Just... just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing. It's a fucking marathon, okay? So, sometimes, you know, you're... you're together so long, that you just... You stop seeing the other person. You just see weird projections of your own junk. Um, instead of talking to each other, you go off the rails and act grubby and make stupid choices, which is what I did, and I feel sick about it because I love you guys, and I love your mom, and that's the truth. Sometimes you hurt the ones you love the most. I don't know why. I... You know, if I read more Russian novels, then... Anyway, I just wanted to say how sorry I am for what I did. I hope you'll forgive me eventually. Thank you.

  • Nic: Are you straight now?