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This is true, and sometimes it's difficult to make morally good choices when you don't know the outcome.
But for a lot(and I mean a LOT) of people they go about life like Charlie's Inferno where they do surface level things that make them appear good but are unwilling to suffer or even inconvenience themselves for the sake of someone else and they expect to see those pearly gates after death which obviously isn't happening.
Being nice to people is one thing, but being GOOD means you're actually willing to lose things that matter because you care more about someone else. A billionaire can donate tens of thousands of dollars to charity but that doesn't make them a good person when their personal life isn't affected by their donation, they had nothing to lose in the first place.

The whole thorn right scene being a possible rape metaphor reminds me of that scene in Mother 3 where Lucas learns PK Love in the hot springs with that Magypsy.
What literally happened was Lucas had to hold his breath/meditate underwater but the cut to black and suggestive dialogue makes it look like something sexual happened. Obviously nothing actually sexual happened or the game wouldn't have been rated All Ages in Japan, it was an adult joke for immature minds to have a chuckle at.
Deltarune is heavily inspired by Mother 3, so I wouldn't be shocked if Toby wanted to make a darker take on that scene.
Everything that literally happens is par for course but you can't shake the feeling that something way more fucked up happened because of the framing.