It is without question that had Stamp Paid not intervened and alerted Paul D of Sethe's past actions, Paul D would not have left Sethe, at least not at that point in time. Despite his pretty weird relationship to Beloved, Paul D affirmed over and over again that he was growing to love Sethe more and more, planning to even have a child with her. Paid's revealing of the details of Sethe's life is pretty objectively an act falling into the category of "none of his business." However, had Paul D never found out that Sethe had attempted to kill her own children, his perception of her as a human being would be severely skewed (in a positive direction, but still skewed).
Was Stamp making a good morality call in sharing Sethe's personal history with Paul D which she had not previously disclosed to him? Does it make a difference when everyone else in town knows about it?
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