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Whether or not that would change things is, of course, purely speculative. For mine own sake, I doubt it would -- the defining characteristic of Homo Ingredior Absentis is Rationalization.

Dear Siegried--Indeed. But while it might not change things personally, might it change things societal-ly? Reboot the anthropology of our age from the I-generation(s) to What's Best for the Children?? At the very least make it just a bit more appropriately politically unacceptable to jettison whole families, often condemning them to some kind of poverty of spirit as well as of material needs? Call into question the ethics of even those institutions we'd expect to champion values, but who instead get sucked into "self-actualization as the highest form of virtue" belief? Make it just a little bit less socially acceptable to blame the victims, We-Who-Are-Left-Behind?
Love, Brunnhilde