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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 474021" data-attributes="member: 4937">Sanackranib: Your complaint seems to depend on the assumption that all religions are morally equal, and has the hint of the belief that all religions are morally evil.  At the very least, you seem to believe that moral education, religious education, and any sort of evangelistic behavior is enherently evil.  I would surmise that you hold the concept of free will rather highly, and see anyone imposing thier opinion (regardless of the means) on someone else as the essence of evil?  I respect that last opinion and see some merit in it, but I think you have to balance it against the right of a society to protect its members (even from themselves).  Can you err on the side of being too dogmatic?  Easily.  But you can also err too far on the side of Libertarianism.I do agree, however, that there has been too little mention of the parents in this discussion, and at the very least they need to be sought out and interviewed.  They do certainly have a primary responcibility for the care of thier children, and that is not something which you can easily overrule.What we are trying to avoid though is leaving the children to become the founders of a regenerated sect of slavers and human sacrificers.  If the parents prove to be capable people, then certainly leaving the children with them is an option (especially in cases in which the criminal behavior does not seem to be deep rooted) and certainly reuniting the familes especially in cases were repentence seems to be real is a good and just goal.  However, if the parents prove not capable to the task of reeducating the children (or not willing), then I would argue that sending the children back to form little nests of cannibels, slavers, and murderers (and whatever else evil cultists do) is somewhat equivalent to child abuse.</blockquote>

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