Parenting disagreement between me and my husband and I made him cry

Me and my husband try really hard to instill Morales into our kids. We want our daughters to respect themselves want our son to respect women. I completely agree with teaching him to protect himself and family but my husband wants to do something that his dad did to him. Our son just turned 13. When my husband was 13 his dad dropped him off in the middle of the woods with some equipment and told him to find his way back home. I told my husband yeah we aren't doing that. He said his dad did it to him and I said I don't care. No. He starts complaining and telling me one day he will have a wife and kids to protect. I said plenty of men protect their family without going through borderline child abuse. He can't understand why I'm saying no and he wants to start a tradition. I said does he have any idea how many kids, boys included simply walk to the store and never return home? How many times kids walk to school and that's the last time they are seen alive? And he wants to put him in the woods? Times have only gotten MORE dangerous. He argued that this can happen anywhere and I argued back that if he was to send our son out there and the moment he left was the last time he saw him alive how would he feel. He told me to stop and I said anything could happen to him. He could get hurt, kidnapped, a sexual predator could find him. Would you forgive yourself if the next time you saw him, he was in a body bag. Could you forgive yourself if when the police find him they tell you they only found his head? Because this is real things that happen to real kids. I ended up making him cry and he told me to leave him alone. I don't think I was being too harsh. These are real things that happen and he needs to think past "my boy will be tough." He might not come back! And I would never forgive my husband.

Edit: I'm pretty sure he was crying over my putting in the image of something terrible happening to our son.

Edit: Even with the airtag still no. Just no. Because even if we could track his location if something happened we may not get their in time. It's not a situation I would ever put my daughters in. Why would I put my son through that? Because he's a boy?