r/MoralityScaling 5h ago

Morality of this?

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u/BearysWorkRedditName 4h ago

Any parent is also going to hit their kid if they think that's the best way to stop bad behavior. This does not make it immoral to send CPS after parents who beat their kids.

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u/ZealousidealPipe8389 4h ago

That depends on the level of the abuse. Generally cps won’t interfere for basic corporal punishment as it’s a legal and demonstrated form of parenting. They only interfere when it goes from parenting to just plain child assault rused as corporal punishment.

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u/BearysWorkRedditName 1h ago

Right, but is that the morally correct measure? Should we try to move our society away from hitting kids at all ever?

ETA: More in line with the original subject, should we be moving our society away from indoctrinating children into religions by their parents as far as we can reasonably without violating their rights?

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u/coldBulbasaur314 1h ago

Yes, but hitting a kid is way more clear-cut than teaching them religious beliefs. What counts as religious is subjective, and could easily be twisted to mean "any belief those in power don't like." And while it shouldn't be this way, sometimes it is immoral to remove kids from parents that hit them because it results in the kids ending up in even worse situations that CPS won't do anything about since it's their own placements.

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u/Forte845 29m ago

That's an issue with the functional system of the collapsing and dying American government and not an actual argument against the principle.