Yes it is, and parents have a duty to prepare their children for the world, evil as it is. It’s very difficult to navigate. For example, there’s some credibility to the argument that raising a machiavellian child is in their own best interests and therefore moral. A more trivial example is purposefully infecting your child with chickenpox for future immune protection. Somewhere between those two (probably) lies the moral ideal, if such a thing exists.

I’ve found my people! Maybe this isn’t so controversial on lemmy but in the whole of global society, I think it is. No way I’m saying something like this over a family dinner or an office coffee.

I did make up my mind on this before Reddit was invented, so a swing and a miss there.

It’s reductive because nobody wants to read a 600-page treatise in a comments section, which is why I forgive your equally reductive hand-waving about unspecified other faiths. The word “indoctrination” is key here. Teaching your child philosophy is not indoctrination. The abuse is choosing for them before they are sufficiently complex consciousnesses to choose for themselves. This occurs most commonly, and is most socially acceptable when it comes to gender and religion.

Religious indoctrination is child abuse.
Sending your kids to places of worship or a religious school, or telling them “this is our religion”, is child abuse.
This includes christofascists and oppressed minorities.

I’m on the fence as to whether telling your child they are a girl or a boy is similarly harmful.

You know what’s even more of an… interesting choice?

Using precision-guided munitions to destroy a school full of little girls when there was a military target right next door.

They’re all the same person for sure. I’m not sure if that person is you though.

what [Netenyahu’s Israel is] doing is still not on the same level of evil as Nazi Germany.

Very difficult to say this for sure. Some of the acts we’ve seen are on the same level, frankly. And how could you possibly measure this, objectively?

I don’t think this can be argued meaningfully, and so should be removed from your argument.

As to the German law:

• Is that applicable here on Lemmy?

• Is it up to the mods to interpret German law and apply it?