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Causerae t1_j9rjnfw wrote

I'm glad you reconnected with your dad and mom. That's a tough legacy.

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Shadowwolfmoon13 t1_j9sk0ql wrote

Damn! Opa was a Nazi scientist doing research in the states? Sorry for your loss and your Mom's. Glad you didn't follow his teachings and continue his reign of terror.

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thatsnotexactlyme t1_j9smla9 wrote

wait… so your dad was innocent?? i wonder why he did what he did then, around the time he was “found out”

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LeXRTG t1_j9stmxx wrote

Hold on, so you had the cure for cancer and you burned it? I understand that the ends don't justify the means, but what's done is done and you can't undo it. At the very least you could have given those people's suffering and deaths some meaning. Now they all died for nothing

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Far-Algae4772 t1_j9t6taq wrote

Replying to LeXRTG (#1,959,678)

It's not even just about that. What's done is done, but if I were a dude who'd been killed in this pursuit of knowledge, I'd be absolutely infuriated at you for making my death in vain.

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gregklumb t1_j9tltfr wrote

Good call OP. You did the right things by exposing your late grandfather and reconciling with your mother and Selma's parents.

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therealdocturner t1_j9tp969 wrote

Replying to LeXRTG (#1,959,678)

I spent two days sitting at his desk weighing the decision. It was not one I came to lightly, but ultimately it was mine to make. I was going to be judged one way or another. I stand by it. I may be wrong, I'll concede that, but progress at the expense of humanity are steps in the wrong direction. I don't feel that my father and Selma died in vain. I can only hope the other victim's family's feel the same way. It's possible I made a mistake, but at the end of the day, I, unlike my grandfather, am only human.

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Totally-Real-Stories t1_j9uyhib wrote

Yea, the ends don't justify the means, but uh...you just doomed countless innocent people to suffer terrible deaths, and even more to watch their loved ones suffer until death, and for what? The people he hurt were already dead, he was already dead. You literally made a decision that hurt billions so you could feel a little better about your connection to a terrible person. You absolutely still could have told your mother she was always right, and told Selma's parents you were sorry, but you also would have given the families of the victims some closure and saved an unknowable amount of people from terrible fates. Now everyone that died and suffered did it for nothing and you get to live with the knowledge that every single time you see someone die from cancer or any other disease your grandfather cured, it's your fault. Your parents and Selma are the only true victims of this story.

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