But remember that they have their reasons, and most of them, if you could magically sift through their mind and extract them, would claim they were doing it for the child's own good. It doesn't mean that they are really doing the child any good, but it means that they believe they are, and any attempt to pretend the opposite is pretty much doomed to failure.
As I said, good people, or at least well-meaning ones, do bad things all the time. This, however, doesn't make them incurably evil, just people who need to be confronted. The idea that there is a universally accessible and recognizable "morally right" choice is a conceit we would do well to avoid.
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But remember that they have their reasons, and most of them, if you could magically sift through their mind and extract them, would claim they were doing it for the child's own good. It doesn't mean that they are really doing the child any good, but it means that they believe they are, and any attempt to pretend the opposite is pretty much doomed to failure.
As I said, good people, or at least well-meaning ones, do bad things all the time. This, however, doesn't make them incurably evil, just people who need to be confronted. The idea that there is a universally accessible and recognizable "morally right" choice is a conceit we would do well to avoid.