someone mentioned the trolley problem below so i'll be borrowing that to talk about this a little bit more. i don't care if you agree or not, but please be polite in your response even if you don't agree.
the trolley problem is a question about, when facing with a switch that can make an ongoing train switch tracks towards either one person tied up on the track or five people tied up on the track, you have to make a decision. most people will choose to switch the track so the train runs over the one person, as saving five people is saving more lives than just one.
but if that one person happened to be a person close to you? would you be able to make that choice?
I understand that a lot of people are angry that he sacrificed his own daughter. But with this dilemma switched into the trolley problem, I think you'd understand that he didn't *want* to switch the tracks to kill Scarlet—the one person. But if he didn't, he'd screw up a lot more innocent people in the country. The nobles are trash, but the common people will be the ones being affected by the war the hardest.
He switched the tracks and lived with the regret and guilt of what he did. It's easy to switch the tracks when it's a stranger, but when it's one own's daughter, it should be a devastating decision.
woah you said that so much better and neater than what I said lmao. It’s still kinda iffy for me imo but these flash back chapters really help his POV on everything. I personally gonna reread the story just to see everything in one sitting
I cried at the end of this chapter. I really do. If other readers read it and still drag the father, whatever. It's their perception of him and I can't change it. Just as they can't change my own perception of him and Scarlet, and I truly feel sympathy for him.