The reason why I called it bad faith is because I am not seeing the possiblity of a positive follow up to your response to that question. In my experience, it's

The reason why I called it bad faith is because I am not seeing the possiblity of a positive follow up to your response to that question. In my experience, it's usually a way for them to make a rebuttal that shows a larger lack of sympathy. More than a few times the follow up to me acknowledging that I was likely difficult to raise was them using that to dismiss or invalidate the seriousness of situation. I am not sure why the default assumption someone would have is that you failed to see the situation from your parent's perspective. But I also recognize that I may just personally be tired of having to respond to that question. If the discussion goes on long enough, one of the more interesting conclusions is the classical ethics question, what kind of net benefit will justify an evil act? Not really on topic for HN though. https://fee.org/articles/why-the-ethics-of-would-you-kill-baby-hitler-are-more-important-than-you-probably-think/ https://fee.org/articles/why-the-ethics-of-would-you-kill-ba...