This is fucking HORRIFYING - and explains so many things imho. If you strike an adult stranger, you get arrested. If you strike your own child, nothing happens to you. What more, other adults will support you. I do not understand the logic.https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1059824278684618752 …
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There exist very special patterns of threats (of hell, spanking etc) with the property that if inflicted on people (in a given society), they'll inflict them on others. Most patterns of threats don't do this, as you said. One can't make one up at will. But they can evolve.
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They may cause people to inflict them on others but they are still really ineffective at creating "discipline". I don't think this dark irony is acknowledged enough.
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Don’t hit your kids. We can’t even be internet friends if you do.