Wrong? Why?
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This kind of knife in the back, barring some moral horror of a parent, is always regretted later and can never be taken back.
I am always more inclined to think the character flaw is with the family member who initiates the defamation, rather than the target.
And, you may be correct in many, if not most, situations. Having come from a family where the father was...whole-heartedly out for only #1, were he to be in a position where he could be put in such a great position of power that he could ruin other peoples’ lives, I would have done the same. As it was, I only had to watch the damage he did to his little circle of influence.
What if Malia or Sasha Obama had been grown women when their father sought public office. Would doing the same have been wrong for them?