Double post:
From Seahorse Seashell Party: "You are suggesting that people who are being abused should stay in abusive relationships for their abusers' benefit. And this isn't played for laughs like Plankton's suicide attempt. This is dead straight. It's the moral of the episode. It is NOT' noble to take in someone else's shit and abuse. Yes, it takes a strong person to live in an abusive relationship, but it takes a stronger person to get out of it. If you're in an abusive relationship, then the best thing you could do is to get out of it. Tell someone; the authorities, your teacher, anyone. What about them and their benefit. Fuck them and their benefit. If someone is hurting you in such a way, they don't deserve to be a part of your life and never did in the first place. The only thing they deserve to be is a distant memory."