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I disagree with this. Blood alone shouldn't chain Chris to Cole. He got out of there about the same time Chris was born and willingly abandoned the whole family. Cole made his intentions clear three decades ago, it's not his fault no one actually responsible took steps to protect Chris's future. It's been over a decade since I left the shitty side of my family, I won't be accepting if someone comes along and says "hey alec, your abusive aunt marvine who you meet half a dozen times ever needs your help because she treated her children terribly and they all turned their backs on her and none of us planned ahead, please put your life on hold for the next year and take care of her needs".
That and it'd be different if Chris had a disability that would explain his broken life. If Chris had Down syndrome, then sure, I can see a moral obligation. Morals are of course debatable, and a serious condition would at least provide an argument. He's just a self-absorbed man-child who doesn't want to get better in any sense of actually doing something realistic that'd fix things. He's an impulse driven man-child served with a side of autism.
Chris has on many occasions been offered opportunities to pull back from the brink. On each occasion he whoops and flings himself another level deeper in to the abyss. I see Cole being no more morally obligated than I would be obliged to share my retirement resources with a sibling who spent their life bumming around beaches.
Hookers and blow for a solid 6 weeks till the life insurance runs out
I'm wondering about this also. Marvin has mentioned a few times that Chris is financially stable, but how would he respond if suddenly he had a whole bunch of money dropped on him? Budgeting for a month isn't the same as having an inheritance that would be used for short-term costs, like disposing of Barb, and then for long-term living. Would he blow it, assuming his tugboat will be along, so there's no need to worry about blowing some cash on a boob job. Of course this assumes Barb bequeathes to him something more substantial than the hoard and loneliness.
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