[ctdonath2]

“do you want your children to love you and spend time with you learning about life and the world because they choose to believe in you or would you rather have your kids cling to you out of fear that you will torture them?”

Continuing your line of reasoning: I don’t want to be a parent who would “put them out of their misery”.

[ScubieNuc]

Continuing your line of reasoning: I don’t want to be a parent who would “put them out of their misery”.

Really? If your child or parent or grand parent or anyone that you loved was suffering and if that suffering was in punishment for some wrong they had done and they recognized their wrong, you wouldn't want to put them out of their misery? That's pretty sad. I would. Even my pets, who have suffered at the end of their life, I have shown mercy and "put them out of their misery."