Imagine ensuring that your son or daughter never learned how to feed or clothe themselves, never developed the ability to walk or talk, to tell time or tie their shoes, never discovered the joy of reading or singing or riding a bike. Such stultifying parenting would be not only immoral and illegal, but despicable and demeaning. When someone persists in performing negative actions, it is often helpful to ask what is he gaining in the short run from that ultimately destructive behavior. The rampant paternalism and mommy-ism prevalent in today's world brings to mind the parable of the feral pigs in the swamp who are gradually seduced and fenced in by a human offering them food. Wild pigs can be excused for being taken in by their captor's ruse.
Pigs are incapable of making moral choices.
But we can.