So if it was a sarcastic joke, why was there no smirking or laughing and what was the point of it? Why joke about something so evil as if it is nothing?
Why joke? He was not just joking to crack jokes, the point if you listened was about parenting, and he was using two extremes to say that somewhere in the middle is where you want to arrive at. He's using one example of lax parenting vs one of psycho parenting.