I wanted to respond to something you said earlier. You said I was arguing that Melfi had a responsibility to future potential rape victims to tell Tony about what happened to her. That's not what I was saying. I'm not Dr. Melfi. She had to make a decision on whether or not to tell Tony based on her own conscience and her own principles. The decision was hers to make. But just because someone has a right to make their own decision about something doesn't mean that I or someone else doesn't have the right to be disappointed about that decision if it wasn't what we were hoping for. Suppose I hope that Clint Eastwood will make another western (I don't, but let's just suppose for the sake of argument). Eastwood is totally within his rights to decide (as I believe he actually has) that Unforgiven will be his last western, that he will never make another one. But that doesn't mean I don't have a right to be disappointed about his decision if I wanted another Eastwood western.

I raised the issue of possible future rape victims not because I believed this made Melfi obligated to tell Tony, but because I feel it's something that must be considered in evaluating whether it would have been "moral" for her to tell Tony. I don't think it's at all obvious that telling him would have been the morally wrong thing to do like many people seem to say without even thinking about it.