Is castrating young boys ethical?

[Violet]

The thing is, you can be positively involved with your child's life and help them get through to making the choice in adulthood. Given that I have not and will not beat children, I'm looking at it from a different perspective. Always assume I mean supportive parents, as that is what we should all be.

Survival and happiness as choices, the former to be struggled with until the mystical line, the latter to not be found until well past it! That's positive alright... usually it's called gatekeeping

So you don't beat children... I didn't say you did, I gave my experience which was this: Nothing my parents did to me got to me, because I had simply ceased to care. When your child has that level of apathy: there is nothing you can do to 'redirect them', the only thing punishment becomes capable of doing is setting their willingness to survive to adulthood even lower. And if you try a standard reward, they'll take it and simply continue being apathetic... it's not what they need (though I'm sure they'd prefer it to being punished).

My parents were supportive in many ways. It's the ways in which they weren't supportive that made life at home emotionally miserable and a place of self-esteem drainage.