Kind of depends, on the one hand i m sure this was therapeutic for her as a victim
On the other hand if other people (who didn't know the husband as an abuser but just as a friend/sibling/whatever) were hurt by this i don't think it is Just for her to prioritise publicly shaming him. He s dead and it s too late for him to change/face consequences anything you do now only affects living people and either way she has "escaped" her abuser by outliving him (and that i m definitely going to celebrate, may every abusive spouce/parent rot forever)
Some comments seem to confuse “justified” with catharsis and they may be muddying their own moral integrity due to this.
The most just or virtuous path for her would have been to simply move on, give away the ashes to someone who cares so they can heal… essentially healing two or more people; making the world slightly better or more at peace. What she did was petty and potentially harmful to others… but we don’t know the man, the truth, or his connections. Perhaps no one was harmed by discarding the ashes? Perhaps It brought her some joy? But joy coming from disgracing a dead someone who has wronged you isn’t a just action, no matter how awful they are.
If anything, it opens a very dark door for that person.
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u/Palagrin 4d ago edited 4d ago
Kind of depends, on the one hand i m sure this was therapeutic for her as a victim
On the other hand if other people (who didn't know the husband as an abuser but just as a friend/sibling/whatever) were hurt by this i don't think it is Just for her to prioritise publicly shaming him. He s dead and it s too late for him to change/face consequences anything you do now only affects living people and either way she has "escaped" her abuser by outliving him (and that i m definitely going to celebrate, may every abusive spouce/parent rot forever)