And if you love your children, you punish them when they do wrong. Surely, to such children, your punishment might seem terrible, even if *it is for the best*.
Maybe we have a different opinion of what Love is.
Tuor
I have four children. When one of them misbehaves, I punish that one. I don't kill the other three and then tell the offender that he better shape up or else. That would be a pretty perverted form of love.