I know that it was an attempt at an analogy, but it was a poor analogy, a false analogy, hence my objection.
A child riddled with disease, obused, dying in squalor is not something a good parent would inflict on their own children in order to demonstrate right from wrong, good from bad.
We have minds, we have imagination, we don't need to be shot in order to know that getting shot is a bad thing.
