I posted it as a half joke / half serious. Does a friend spend two years building trust and then deliberately take it away in order to build character?
That’s usually a parent thing. “Sour the milk”. Break the bond.
Part of a conscious plan.
That’s the main difference between “just a one time joke” vs “character building exercise”. It’s cute in this format but less cute when it’s “tough love” parenting as a conscious parenting decision.
But of course alone, isolated, taken as a singular one time event, it’s just a joke.