I have just been asked for advice re a difficult moral issue and would be interested to know what others think.
A friend's father asked her, before he died, to find his love letters to her mother and burn them. She couldn't find them at the time but since then her mother died and the letters were found when clearing out the attic. My friend wants to carry out her father's wishes but her three siblings say they are part of family history and should be kept. Some of them have already read the letters, my friend hasn't. The family members who have read them say that they're very innocent love letters. My advice was that morally the letters should be destroyed but if the siblings overrule her then her conscience is clear. Personally I think they shouldn't have read them. I do understand the siblings desire to preserve family history but what's right? I felt quite a responsibility when asked for my opinion.
What do people think?
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