I have spent my life educating people of all ages without hitting them It would be real weird and cruel to start with my defenseless child.
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No. There's no reason to teach my child that they should behave well out of fear of violence inflicted upon them by those who love them.https://twitter.com/MurphysLawX/status/923989893692448773 …
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If I feel I have to physically assault someone because they do not grasp the point I am attempting to teach, this is my failure as a teacher
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I still find it a failure of society that the only people we are legally allowed to to hit are the weakest and most vulnerable among us.
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I mean, if you say it out loud just like that, it seems like the product of a barbaric society. But we're mostly cool with it in practice
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I slap you, I can get arrested. I slap my friend I can get arrested. I slap my wife I can get arrested. I slap my kid... "Hey, your choice!"
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Sure, people will instinctively draw the line between "hitting and abuse" but that's a line we only draw for kids.
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Nobody allows us to argue "Yes I hit this man, officer but it wasn't violence, it was discipline."
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"Its ok if you don't do it in anger" Ok. So you were calm and unemotional while inflicting violence on a child? When else is this a virtue?
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Dispassionate, instrumental violence is usually considered a particularly heinous form of violence. But not against kids I guess?
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