Age and morality: What would you have done? (NOT a discussion topic)

I agree.

I'm 35.

Even if the girl could have been better off with Jack Doyle, which we don't know for sure, it was morally wrong to let the scheming uncle and dirty cops get away with kidnapping a girl.

Came back to this thread after however many years. And I have to say that I still agree with Patrick's decision. Kidnapping a child against her and her mother's own will, with the mother (no matter how much of a deadbeat she is) forever thinking her child is missing or dead, is tantamount to psychological torture. There is nothing worse than living the rest of your life without knowing what happened to your own child.

The Police Captain's methods were obscene, and the child would be forced to adopt a new identity and probably live in hiding the rest of her childhood years so she wouldn't be recognized. Not to mention the case was a matter of corruption at the highest level, and involved multiple homicides with dirty cops.

And if the Police Captain really wanted the kid, couldn't he just call social services and adopt her that way?

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

I would have let her stay with Jack, it may be illegal but is better than being with her drug taking mother, she would have had a happier life with Jack. Although normally I like to follow the law I just feel this could be an exeption as no-one is getting hurt or anything.

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Agree, 28.

Moral reasoning has very little to do with age.

Hi all,

After watching the film I've found this topic quite interesting not only by the raised question, but also by the fact that there is quite a lot of responses collected over the years.

I was too lazy to look through all 40 pages of responses, so I ran a quick script, which collected every post written and filtered only those, that had a two digit number and a word 'Agree/Disagree' (so there might be some errors in the final data, since there might've been duplicated entries. Though posts with discussions (more than once mentioned age) were also filtered).

I've put up the results to https://amazing.shinyapps.io/rhin/ as a simple histogram and scatterplot, where it is clearly visible that there are no very significant difference between the answers (or the mean age). There were a lot more people in imdb community who disagreed (which can also explain the bigger spread of the respondents age), but it doesn't seem to be dependent on the age.

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