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RE: Moral thinking is logic and reason in high gear!
Morality and Naziism is an interesting case. They say nearly everybody would have been Nazis had they been German citizens then...
The Nuremberg trials were so singularly interested in establishing the inadmissibility of crimes against humanity, that essentially in principle it let off evil; the inhuman villains did not believe what they did was wrong so they did not feel guilty towards our humanity - a humanity they didn't share in.
I think physical punishment after age eight or nine or so, by which time a child begins shaping a moral sense, has a brutalizing effect; in reducing the person to a brute, it dulls conscience. But you sound like a gentle father.
I let the brute be the consequences incurred by their actions. The only time I don't is when the consequences would harm them physically. I don't think it is gentle, but necessary for their development.
"Morality and Naziism is an interesting case. They say nearly everybody would have been Nazis had they been German citizens then.." sadly is not a possible thing that actually occurred as they had to murder a lot of German people to be "Nazism" in the first place.
Whether or not a farther or a mother is gentle is irrational because the values are arbitrary and change from subject to subject. Notice that I didn't say that such doesn't exist mostly because exist is not the right term when speaking about the irrational. The difference is the same difference between an object and a concept. One is subject observable and the other is imaginary. LOL