OP must really concern his mother if she poses such basic morality questions to check his response

ok ok ok, i have a theory on where her head was at.

i think it might have been about current messaging around “stop teaching girls is their job to avoid being sexually assaulted and start teaching boys that it’s not ok to do”.

I think in all honestly part of the reason we ended up in this paradigm is because parents generally try to teach what they know. for the most part, in the past men weren’t really aware of how common rape was, or didn’t care. men probably didn’t see it as a thing to talk to their girls about. it was also something they likely had no relevant experience in teaching about. so men didn’t see it a important to teach anything about it to girls. and it didn’t seem likely to negatively affect their son… women on the other hand clearly saw the need to prepare young girls for this reality. so they teach what they know. what little that can do from their perspective with their power. moms default to imparting the defense mechanisms they have built to survive in this terrible state of affairs.

so, my thought is that this is a mother trying to teach her son not to be a predator. but she doesn’t even know what predators think to make them do that. she has no idea what to say that might make her son not do something that she doesn’t understand and doesn’t know if her son has or ever will feel those things. it’s a hard problem. it’s easy to say that we need to put the onus on men to not be predators, but how do we turn that into reality without sounding like this? what does a parent actually say to a young boy that will carry more weight than “don’t do that”.

I laughed harder because my mom pulls nonsense like this from time to time but we just tell her and laugh like “wtf is this question? are you high?” It’s usually very funny

edit: I think it’s a brain fart that they say out lout

I don’t usually think these greentext screenshots depicit real stories, but sometimes parents want to try to teach their kids some kind of life lesson but the delivery is horrible. My dad wanted to teach me one time that “all good things come to an end” so he decided to take my favorite lamp (something similar to a lava lamp) to the recycling station (it was in an okay condition, not ready yet for a dumpster). Thanks Dad, I learned nothing and it didn’t at all prepare me for loss. Then again it could have been my mother who forced him to throw it away (because she can’t have any joy if I do) so he had to come up with some kind of cover to comply.

That’s just a superficial reading of the news.

But there’s another level. Why did the dentist kill his wife? Was it some chemical dentists use that needs to be forbidden or at least regulated? Was it a mental health issue that points to failings in the healthcare system? Was it a problem with how he was a raised as a child that can be used to inform education policies? Can the dentist be redeemed or should he just be punished?

And on an even deeper level, should we as a society even care and intervene or should we move to a sociopathic mindset of embracing full individual responsibility and no collective responsibility at all?

OP’s mother was replaced