Is it morally wrong to disown your family? I'm struggling with this. On one hand my family are really bad people and the other, they are my family.
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Is it morally wrong to disown your family? I'm struggling with this. On one hand my family are really bad people and the other, they are my family.
Is it morally wrong to disown your family? I'm struggling with this. On one hand my family are really bad people and the other, they are my family.
Depends why you want to disown them.
Not so long as you have a rational reason for doing so. You have no obligation to care for or associate with someone even if they are a family member.Is it morally wrong to disown your family? I'm struggling with this. On one hand my family are really bad people and the other, they are my family.
Is it morally wrong to disown your family? I'm struggling with this. On one hand my family are really bad people and the other, they are my family.
Hi Seeking,
Yes, from a Christian point of view it is wrong to disown your family. But, this doesn't mean that you can't hold them accountable to some extent for their moral failures (or abuses).
Peace
2PhiloVoid
What are you hoping to accomplish by "disowning" them?Is it morally wrong to disown your family? I'm struggling with this. On one hand my family are really bad people and the other, they are my family.
Eeeeeehhhh, I'd add a slight caveat there about dependents and minors.Not so long as you have a rational reason for doing so. You have no obligation to care for or associate with someone even if they are a family member.
True. I should have added that. Never a minor child but if they were adults and they did something horrible enough like the recent shooting in the church, then I would. I have several extended family members that I don't associate with because they are horrible people. One is a racist. One is a flaming liberal.Eeeeeehhhh, I'd add a slight caveat there about dependents and minors.
What does "disown" mean...
Sam "Mad Sam" DeStefano (September 13, 1909 − April 14, 1973) was an Italian-American gangster who became one of the Chicago Outfit's most notorious loan sharks and sociopathic killers. Chicago-based Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, such as William F. Roemer, Jr., considered DeStefano to be the worst torture-murderer in the history of the United States.[1] The Outfit used the mentally unstable and sadistic DeStefano for the torture-murders of Leo Foreman and Arthur Adler, the murder of DeStefano's younger brother, Michael DeStefano, Outfit enforcer and fellow loan shark William "Action" Jackson and many others. However, due to DeStefano's deranged mental state, the Outfit never let him become a made man. At least one Outfit insider, Charles Crimaldi, claimed DeStefano was a Devil worshipper.[2]
DeStefano's partner in the drug dealing business was rogue cop Tommy Dorso. Dorso reported that he once saw DeStefano roll on the floor, spit running from his mouth, begging Satan to show him mercy and screaming over and over again, "I'm your servant, command me."
Once, while riding in his car, he saw a black man walking down a Chicago street. DeStefano forced the man into his car at gunpoint, took the man to his house and forced the man and his own wife to have sex with each other, all for some real or imagined grievance DeStefano had with his wife. Afterward, the man was so mortified that he would be accused of rape, he went to the nearest police station and reported the incident.[7]
One informant who was close to DeStefano described him as a highly emotional, temperamental individual, extremely egotistic and concerned with his personal appearance. The walls of his home were lined with mirrors and as DeStefano talked to people he continually watched his reflection in those mirrors as he walked across the room. He was described as being of such a temperament that he could be crying at one moment and laughing the very next. DeStefano would often state if he had not been framed for rape at age 17, he would have been the president of the United States.[8]
True. I should have added that. Never a minor child but if they were adults and they did something horrible enough like the recent shooting in the church, then I would. I have several extended family members that I don't associate with because they are horrible people. One is a racist. One is a flaming liberal.
Eh Liberal is a buzz word anymore. It doesn't really mean anything since it's been so overused and misused. Same with "the right' and "conservatives" or "the left".
Meanwhile I'm here in the cool people section eating popcorn and wondering what's wrong with these people.