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Is it ethical for a parent to raise their children in their faith tradition? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For many religious people, raising their children in their faith is an important part of their religious practice. They might see getting their kids into heaven as one of the most important things they can do as parent. And certainly, adults should have the right to practice their religion freely, but children are impressionable and unlikely to realize that they are being indoctrinated into one religion out of the thousands that humans practice.

And many faith traditions have beliefs that are at odds with science or support bigoted worldviews. For example, a queer person being raised in the Catholic Church would be taught that they are inherently disordered and would likely be discouraged from being involved in LGBTQ support groups.

Where do you think the line is between practicing your own religion faithfully and unethically forcing your beliefs on someone else?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Their kid, their call up until the point the child's safety is in danger.

I have no more right to tell them how to raise their kids than they have about my entirely hypothetical and undesired kids. I may not agree with their choices and they may not agree with mine, I may think they are raising their kids to be less moral, they may think the same with the added bonus that I'm condemning mine to an eternity of torment.

That's life in a pluralistic society.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Their kid, their call up until the point the child’s safety is in danger.

You're answering the legal question instead of OP's ethical question. You're not wrong in your legal answer, but that wasn't what OP was asking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think that's the ethical answer too.

We can't know who is right, so I don't see any ethical way to intervene.

I hate when I see parents giving their kids a screen instead of interacting with them or worse, ignoring their kid im favour of their phone. But again, I don't feel it is ethical to interfere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If a child is homosexual, I would argue its unethical to teach them they are freak of nature and they are wrong or broken. However, its not illegal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's act vs rule ethics, what is ethical in a particular situation may not be broadly applicable to society.

Edit: And from the religious parents perspective, letting your beloved child suffer an eternity of torment is probably not super moral. I may disagree but that's their perspective and there's no arbiter make the call.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're citing Bentham Utilitarianism but you could make a stronger argument for your side if you cited Kant I would think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Utilitarianism makes sense from first principles, Kant is just his opinions.