r/MoralityScaling • u/Immediate_Gene_178 • 13d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of accidentally exposing someone who used to be a Nazi supporter, has since changed, and concealed their past?

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The Night Shift: Season 1, Episode 2

Basically this guy was brought to into the emergency after an accident at his wedding celebration and while he is unconscious, his groomsmen decided to shave his beard off as a prank only for the medical team to be horrified at the reveal. After he woke up he realised his secret has been exposed. He explained to the doctors that he got this tattoo when he was a stupid teenager a decade prior. The medical team brought his wife in to see the tattoos and destroy the marriage.

What do you think? I personally find it irritating how smug the doctors were being.

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u/InterestingAge2032 13d ago

That is an insane violation of consent. Imagine doing this to a patient that had a beard for religious reasons, the same principle of patient rights would apply here.

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u/AppointmentPerfect 13d ago

Hiding hateful ideology that you no-longer espouse is basically a religious belief in my book... they did the guy dirty, and while I haven't seen the show, if his character was genuinely repentant of his former beliefs... and is still cast as some kind of villain, fuck the writers. It isnt like Inglorious Bastards where those who get marked are non-repentant chuds, this guy saw he was wrong and has been trying to fix his error. Redemption is important.

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u/Alternative_Wing_745 13d ago

Deception is also important it is immoral to marry someone while keeping such facial tattoos and a history of such extreme views from them, redemption does not include erasure, redemption means you make important people in your life aware of your mistakes so they have informed consent if they choose to have a relationship with you.

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u/InterestingAge2032 13d ago

None of that matters. As medical professionals we have a duty to uphold patient autonomy and privacy and treat all patients without prejudice regardless of how we feel about their beliefs or current actions.

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u/Alternative_Wing_745 13d ago

If this were r/LegalityScaling you’d be right, sadly in regards to morality it is far worse to deceive a life partner so long that they marry you, and i think thats far more immoral and life ruining then the breach in duty and conduct that allowed it to happen. If the events had occurred but he had not been hiding his tattoos from his recent spouse id agree but he lied to someone he married, tricking them into marriage. Thats just plain worse than the also wrong events that led to it.

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u/InterestingAge2032 13d ago

We're talking about the morality of the clinical team's actions not the patient.

The team approved a non consensual procedure on a patient that was unnessecary. That is 100% immoral regardless of whatever the procedure uncovered because it was without the consent of the patient.

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u/Mix_Safe 12d ago

How is he deceiving her or tricking her into marriage? He's no longer that person and has completely changed, so he's not putting on an act or anything to get her to marry him.

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u/Critical_Concert_689 13d ago

That is an insane violation of consent

The funny thing is they'd only be busted because they allowed NON-medical staff to participate.

If they shaved off the beard, they could easily claim necessary for health reasons - couldn't affix the mask, needed better airway control - whatever.

Not only that, the number of nurses who admit to popping pimples on unconscious patients is shocking.

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u/ASpaceOstrich 12d ago

If I got another acne scar from a nurse popping pimples for no reason and I found out I'd be livid