...people don't do much tying of five-year-olds to posts in this country; he doesn't know of any particular other countries where that's different.  If somebody gave you their five-year-old to watch and you tied them to a post outside and went metal-shopping, they'd probably consider it disrespectful and a medium-small deal even if nothing bad happened to the kid.  People get hugely invested in their kids in a really emotional way.

Somebody would do that if the five-year-old was a slave, but people are still hoping for a Summoned Hero to show up to deal with the Fire.  Summoned Heroes have a tendency to execute the entire upper governments of countries that practice child slavery.

...people don't do much tying of five-year-olds to posts in this country; he doesn't know of any particular other countries where that's different.  If somebody gave you their five-year-old to watch and you tied them to a post outside and went metal-shopping, they'd probably consider it disrespectful and a medium-small deal even if nothing bad happened to the kid.  People get hugely invested in their kids in a really emotional way.

Somebody would do that if the five-year-old was a slave, but people are still hoping for a Summoned Hero to show up to deal with the Fire.  Summoned Heroes have a tendency to execute the entire upper governments of countries that practice child slavery, and to not accept those governments having hastily changed things when the Hero showed up.