In the book The Giver Jonas father works in the nursery taking care of the infants but one of the deeds that he has to do is to put them to death sometimes. He refers to the act as releasing the infants. I can think of quite a few adjectives that would describe his father in the story.
Nurturing, ignorant, caring, trustworthy, parental, dutiful, obedient, friendly, helpful, unengaged, and bland.
Some of the traits are evident because he has no memories of how to have real emotions like the rest of the members in the community. I can not call him a murderer because he does not "kill" according to the communications of his society.
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