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What shocks me is how can a parent torture (or order somebody to torture) their own children? Don't they love them?

• cbluth 8y ago
  love? in a royal family?
• phs2501 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case Not everyone is good.
• Brockenstein 8y ago
  You might be surprised what people consider love, and how all sorts of other beliefs get intertwined with it. IE you have strong sacred long held beliefs that your female children are not independent, are your property. That you want the best for them, according to your beliefs and your customs, which you believe are right. That resorting to "tough love" to get wayward children on the right track is for their own good. A lot of folks would claim or deny they're hurting their children, it's their children who are being hurtful by being "disobedient", bringing dishonor, or rejecting the values on which they were raised. The list goes on and on, the rationalizations are enumerable. And even aside all that, some people just love exercising their authority over others and actively seek opportunities to do it to the maximum degree they possibly can. It's pretty easy to rationalize cruelty as love. And everyone is the hero of their own story, so not always a lot of incentive to be objective or introspective about it.
• Tuna-Fish 8y ago
  In order to develop the kind of relationship with one's children you'd expect, you have to actually spend time with them. Sheikh Al Maktoum has 23 children with 7 different women. At that point, some of them are going to be strangers to you.