1. It was actually Kyle who first introduced the child abuse analogy. Then you responded to it ("Well, if we are really going to try to shoehorn this example in,"), so I in turn responded to that. So it was never about me trying to redirect this discussion into one about parenting - it was an _analogy_.

2. How is it any more or less ludicrous than other analogies that have been presented?
e.g.: stealing, killing etc. - the point I was trying to make is that there are different moral and legal grounds concerning even the same acts depending on the intent and motivations behind those acts.

e.g.:
+ stealing because you're starving vs. stealing to make money
+ manslaughter vs. murder (they're both forms of killing)

Which comes down to:
+ infringing IP to create products that don't exist vs. infringing IP to counterfeit already existing products

What I'm saying is that _intent_ and _motive_ are factors which ought to be taken into account.