• toynbee@lemmy.world
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          7 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.