Felix

The moon is tidally locked to the Earth, so if he remained on the dark side without putting out probes, he would indeed never see the Earth.

Clearly you don't have children. If you did, you'd know that disgracing yourself for even the slightest possibility of saving your child would be nothing at all. Yeah, sure, it's unlikely anything good will come out of this (as it's that type of story), and the mom here seems to have noticed that too from the family's attitude, but what if there's even a millionth of a chance? People love to talk about dignity or face but what use is it, really? Can you eat it? Will it help your disabled child?

MC stops a rape while raping a tree.