OOTS #1227 - The Discussion Thread

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Sure. What about his wife, the person who spent the most time with him, almost 30 years, and probably knew him best, when she tells us he was a man that made her very happy, and that does not deserve to go to hell. She also informs us that his current irritable attitude is the result of his current circumstances, and thus not a pre-existing way of being.

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Nale and Sabine were very happy together.

EDIT: Lest people misinterpret me, my point is that being in a happy relationship is not a priori evidence of being Good. And I'd like to reiterate that, if Rich wanted to show us scenes of Eugene being a selfless defender of the weak and having a strong code of behavior, before he became a selfish grouch, he could have. He hasn't.

Spoiler: Start of Darkness

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Twenty or so years before the events of the main strip, Eugene skips Roy's soccer game to go drink at a bar then shows up after it's over being deliberately insulting and ignorant about it, when, as Sara says, he is clearly smart enough to learn enough about the game to support Roy. But belittling his eight-year-old son is more important to Eugene than that is.