Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-366087-20161220034640

I just added Maui's Parents as deletion candidates, and feel they should be discussed here.

My reasoning is as follows:
 * 1) extremely minor characters which are unseen
 * 2) the culture they came from, and many others at the time frame, routinely practiced infanticide when babies exhibited traits considered as "imperfect"
 * 3) according to the varied Polynesian Mythologies from which Maui was pulled from and modeled on, he eventually found his parents(mother first) and although still extremely ugly—the reason why they threw him away—they opened their family in acceptance to him as "like a brother" according to cultural hospitality for the parentless (unaware of his true identity)

For Point 1 there are far too many categories tagged to these unseen characters mentioned for less than 3 minutes worth of dialog.

For Point 2, and the reason why discussing in this thread, culurally speaking infanticide of "imperfect" babies was widely accepted as the norm for pragmatic reasons and not out of any evil or malicious intent.

Finally, Point 3 shows that the parents were indeed loving individuals who practiced the rest of their cultural laws and practices. Even upon finding out that Maui was the child they threw away, they harbored no ill-will for him as a grown man.

Granted, there is a lot of Original Research, but the movie is a story derived from and touches on blended Polynesian Mythologies, so their cultural observations need to be taken into account without filtering through our modern day sensibilities and perspectives.