• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I typed a long message, then asked my wife what she thought about the concepts raised.

    She informed me that you might be metaphorically pulling my chain.

    If you are, well done! I was fooled. Though tricking someone as socially oblivious as I isn’t that much of an achievement, I still appreciate the joke.

    If you are not, I am happy to discuss the philosophies of committed relationships, but my (very inexpert) main points would be:

    • one should honor all commitments
    • commitments can be ethically renegotiated with the informed consent of all involved parties
    • at the end of the commitment (ie, death in this case), termination or renegotiation is also fair (even if the same commitment is the end result)

    edit: corrected an individual word.