Whether you think it's OK to smack children or not, 'Because you'd be arrested if you did it to an adult' is not a workable justification.
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I just think there are better arguments against smacking children than 'because you wouldn't get away with doing it to adults.'
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It's like the one that goes - 'It's hypocritical to oppose abortion but support the death penalty.' No, it isn't.
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Not unless its also hypocritical to support life imprisonment for serial killers but not for foetuses.
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You'll do better opposing the death penalty on humanitarian grounds (as I do) than making arguments which don't work logically.
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And supporting abortion on ethical grounds (as I do) than making arguments that don't work logically.
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It matters that arguments work logically especially if they are on behalf of issues you find important.
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Another one I get is 'You're alive because your mother didn't abort you so you must see that abortion is wrong.' WTF?
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I'm also alive because my great-grandfather raped his 14 year old maid. Does that mean we have to think that's morally good now?
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Bad comparison. That's not corporal punishment. & anyway, they'll be next when we've evolved out of them too.
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I have to compare corporal punishment to something that isn't to look at the argument or its not a comparison. Its the same thing.
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From my experience as a child, I don't consider them to be the same thing. And you're disqualifying other comparisons as illogical.
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The fact this is true doesn't make the 'assault' argument a bad one. Parenting requires keeping the kid in custody. Literally.
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Talking about punishment tho. Grounding. Parenting doesn't explicitly require that.
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I think the spirit of the argument is what is the legal status of children? Property? Chattel? With circumcision, who's penis is it?
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It only seems to apply to spanking tho here. I don't see anyone arguing against grounding which they should on this logic.
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I think yours is a good example of an argument being logical but not reasonable.
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I've confined fewer than I've desired, but no warrants so far.

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