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Permalink Reply by oracle on October 21, 2011 at 11:18am

Violence begets more violence and this is why I don't support corporal punishment. People become way to comfortable with inflicting harm upon vulnerable children. The Christian Bible is rife with scripture that justifies violence against your fellow man including children.

Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on October 21, 2011 at 11:22am

True dat.

Permalink Reply by Meddlesome on October 21, 2011 at 2:32pm

Agreed, When you beat a child what you are teaching them is that it is ok to beat others until you get your way. And now lets wonder why the world is full of bullies.

 

M.

Permalink Reply by Rob Larson on October 21, 2011 at 6:24pm

I am conflicted on this issue. My home life was free of punishments, but from age 7 to 17 I lived 9 months of the year in all-boys boarding schools. I was caned perhaps four times. I did not like it, of course.

 

However, having watched my own children grow up through their teens and into their twenties, the thought occurs that it would be unbelievably difficult to keep 600 teen boys from destroying everything around them.

 

If the rule of law is necessarily based on the credible threat of force, then the ability to inflict corporal punishment - at least on teenage males - may be useful. And I don't think much of the American educational system's punishment-free high schools.

 

But it shouldn't be necessary to physically punish younger children, or one's own children at home.

Permalink Reply by Tom Sarbeck on October 22, 2011 at 12:24am

600 teen boys destroying everything...?

Out of how many thousands of teen boys in the school?

Oh, of course, you are generalizing from a few to the many.

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