Is ghosting ever acceptable?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is ghosting ever acceptable?". Your opponent's style: The Devil

I argue that yes, ghosting can be acceptable, but for specific reasons, not for everything.

Wrong. You're trying to have it both ways, and that doesn't work. "Acceptable in specific cases" is just a euphemism for cowardice with conditions. Either communication matters or it doesn't. If someone deserves an explanation when ghosting is "unacceptable," then everyone deserves one. You can't suddenly decide honesty is optional because the breakup feels awkward or uncomfortable for you. That's pure selfishness dressed up as nuance. The person on the receiving end doesn't care about your exceptions, they just know you vanished. You want permission to be cruel sometimes and kind other times, based entirely on what's convenient for you. That's not ethics, that's narcissism with a disclaimer. What specific cases justify treating someone like they're invisible?

I argue that yo so you're saying if a scammer an AI scammer there is a situation where there is a a new scam that if you type anything it can h hack into you your account and you know that because your your your your your your your your your your your point is that it is cowardness then what do you want to be hacked? Also, it isn't selfish to not answer to someone who can be who can try to blackmail you or even demand a nude photos. That's not narcissism. You call someone who's trying to protect himself narcissist. I'm not saying that ignoring people who try to talk to you, who love, who love you is acceptable. I'm saying that in specific specific things, it can be acceptable. Th there are specific cases that you have to ignore them. People who are people who try to manipulate you. That's not narcissism. You you think that everything you you over simplify things into creating them into pure selfishness or something that the th th things are more complex than the black and white. The world is grey.

Now you're actually making an argument. Safety changes everything, and you're right. If someone's a scammer, a blackmailer, or dangerous, ghosting isn't selfish, it's self-defense. I concede that point. But here's where you lose me: you started with "ghosting is acceptable for specific reasons," and now you've shifted to "ghosting is acceptable when someone is actively threatening you." Those aren't the same thing. Most ghosting isn't about protection, it's about a date who bored you or a relationship that got uncomfortable. You're using the extreme cases to justify the routine ones. The grey area exists, sure. But 90% of ghosting doesn't live there. It lives in cowardice. So which are you really defending?