Here's an insult for you. You're seriously stupid if you can't comprehend what I said as moderation.
Like I said, difference in values. You're genuinely up your own ass if you can only think of this as trite rhetoric.
It isn't an insult. It's fine if you have different moral beliefs. But if you're unreceptive to what the author has to say, why are you even reading this anymore?
There are emergent theories that the boy was also spirited away, as in he isn't actually as old as he says he is. Also, circumstances change and people change. What was true back then isn't necessarily true now.