If a man prioritises a ring over his finger, I reserve the right to think he is a moron.
Very well. And I reserve the right to form an opinion about you, as well. shrug
If I was the wife, I’d totally divorce the guy.
But I think what’s even more ironic is that the guy’s last name is “Battle.”
This somehow makes you superior to the gentleman in question?
Would this feel different to people if the lad hadn’t been injured in war? I mean, if he’d been working on a building site or something, suffered an injury and come to the same conclusions, would anybody here change their views? Just interested.
No. I’m just saying that if it was my husband who chose to let doctors mutilate his body because he thought it would make me fawn over him with love and devotion, I’d divorce him. I couldn’t live with a guy who thought a symbol was more important that preserving as much of his body as possible.
They even said in the article that the wife was mad about it at first.
Nope, not to me. He made his decision; the circumstances are irrelevant. I can’t say I’d have made the same decision, but I respect his conviction.
When interviewed about the incident, Corporal Battle responded, “They’re thieves! They’re thieves! They’re filthy little thieves! Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us, our precious. Curse them! WE hates them! it’s ours it is, and we wants it! We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!”
It wouldn’t have changed my mind, but I think it could possibly explain the guy’s mindset when he made the decision.
It’s not my opinion that this is the action of some heroic soldier, battling bravely. It’s my opinion that it’s the action of a guy who loves his wife, and apparently couldn’t bear lose the one thing that symbolizes her to him when he’s away.
So, you can read people’s minds and know what their motivations are? Neat trick.
I always considered myself one of the more cynical and jaded people in the world but I have definitely been shown up in this thread.
Why do some of you think this was about him making his wife happy and getting her to “fawn all over him”? The ring was a symbol of his marriage. The marriage includes the wife, but it also includes him and is a symbolic entity in its own right. I seriously doubt that he was just trying to get a little extra when he got home. I think that his decision was very valliant and this it is a terrible story. It is about as funny as a crate of puppies getting run over by a firetruck.
I think he was a fucking moron. A marriage is far more than a ring. A ring is a stupid piece of metal that can be replaced, not a marriage, not a vital part of life. A finger is quite an important part of a functional hand. This guy’s 19 and he’s just consigned himself to having a disadvantage for the rest of his life that is, in all reality, worse than having a finger that has limited use.
Then again, perhaps for safety reasons soldiers shouldn’t wear rings in the field. It’s not exactly unheard of for those with occupations in which a ring can become a hinderance or even a danger to be told they must not wear them while working.
QED, the simple fact is losing the ring would have been a temporary emotional sting- fixed once the wife gives him some new token of love. Losing the finger is forever and a real physical loss. Your heroic attempts at open-mindedness and respecting any possible mindframe simply ignore the hard consequences of his decision. He made a really bad choice and I really can’t imagine him not regretting it in a few months/years.
1 question for all of those condemning as a moron: exactly how much of his finger did he sacrifice? Are we talking about the fingernail? From the middle joint up? From the ring up?
from the elbow I believe
Yes, he might. So, anyone who’s ever made a decision they regretted later is a moron? Besides, the loss of a finger is pretty trivial, really. It’s not a handicap; hell, it’s barely more than an inconvenience. Again, I probably wouldn’t have made the same decision, but without being in that situation, I can’t say for sure what I would have done. And neither can you. He made a decision under difficult circumstances. I’m not going to be a judgemental prick about it.
Still not a lot of information, but it does suggest that it was a question of “Do we chop your finger here, where your ring is? Or here, just below your ring?”
Uh, it suggests to me that they said ‘either we can cut this ring, or cut this finger’ and he said ‘cut the finger’.
Stupid.