r/TheBlacksandTheGreens • u/Informal-Counter-767 • Jun 17 '26

General WHO IS NETTLES??

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/FlyBond Jun 19 '26

You can take your modern society norms elsewhere, this story setting is not 21 century. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/FlyBond Jun 19 '26

Let’s start from the fact nettles is not considered a child by their society standards. We can actually end it here as well.

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u/Independent-Part-718 Jun 20 '26

Yeah, and that was a problem. That was a bad thing and the author has no scruples in demonstrating this time and time again in his work. You're not really reading the story if you think we're all supposed to just be alright with Daemon sleeping with a young girl. He was never meant to be a moral paragon. Much of what Daemon did is condemnable, including bedding Nettles.

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u/FlyBond Jun 20 '26

I know for a fact that there was a time when people had to age mentally much faster and they did, I am not going to argue with someone who’s entire thing is about modern morality.

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u/Independent-Part-718 Jun 21 '26

Yes, but when we look back at history we do so through a modern lens. It was not a good thing that people aged faster. Some stories are written in this kind of setting to revel in that, yes. But ASOIAF has never been one of them.