The core of the conflict — Bentham/Mill/Singer utilitarianism vs. Kantian duty vs. feminist Care ethics / JD Vance’s insanely popular misinterpretation of ordo amoris — suffers from not mere simplicity or naivety of exploration but from no exploration at all. Flat-out avoidance of the very real questions at hand.
And the construal of the Catholic character — and by contrast, the other characters who are non-Catholic if not (as implied) non-religionists — is just offensive.
Thank god it’s so damn fun and sexy. So it gets an above average starting despite deserving my 0.5 star “morally repulsive” tag. That’s definitely ethical of me.
