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A better analogy might be "amputating a leg is a healthy end to gangrene". Better not to have gangrene in the first place, but if someone does, better to amputa
by klipt 6y ago
A better analogy might be "amputating a leg is a healthy end to gangrene". Better not to have gangrene in the first place, but if someone does, better to amputate the leg than die.
But you wouldn't say "amputating a leg is a healthy end to having legs" because for most leg havers, there are better outcomes.
In the same vein, I'd say "divorce is a healthy end to a bad marriage" but not "divorce is a healthy end to marriages in general".
- hamburglar 6y agoThe “bad” part seems like a strange distinction to need to make. Are people in good marriages getting divorced? In other words, I think it’s reasonable to say that divorce is a healthy way to end a marriage, because if it ended in divorce, then by definition, at least one party thought it needed to, making it a bad marriage.