Morality Dream
Aug. 18th, 2019 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
failure_artistI had this dream today that was a type of morality play set in Hell. An introduction said that pedophiles who abuse children go to Hell but also pedophiles who don't abuse children ONLY because they fear Hell go to Hell. There was then some drama between a man and a woman and the woman's father had abused her and the man talked of horrible fates for the father but the man had objectified teenage girls. I woke up around then.
What I keep thinking about is the ethical question posed by the dream. While in the dream, I thought the introduction was flawed because someone shouldn't be punished for something they didn't do, no matter what the motive for abstaining is. It would be better if one treated children correctly out of respect rather than fear of punishment but what matters is children's safety. Yet I wake up and find it's my own mind that created that flaw. Dreams are funny that way.
What I keep thinking about is the ethical question posed by the dream. While in the dream, I thought the introduction was flawed because someone shouldn't be punished for something they didn't do, no matter what the motive for abstaining is. It would be better if one treated children correctly out of respect rather than fear of punishment but what matters is children's safety. Yet I wake up and find it's my own mind that created that flaw. Dreams are funny that way.
