“As for this boy, he fell on that gray scale between the two extremes”
You’re using the wrong scale. Try applying the totalitarian communist dictatorship test for the land to which we were sending him back. No gray area there.
I agree that I was using that scale, but intentionally so, because that is the scale used by most people in favor of sending him back.
I agree with you. Even using “Their” scale, that would be the equivalent of sending him back to abusive parents.