(April 19, 2016 at 4:34 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 18, 2016 at 10:38 am)Mathilda Wrote: I believe children should be educated and able to make their own decisions. I also know that the associations that you make in a child's brain will stay with them for life and that this requires a lot of responsibility.
You haven't even demonstrated that you know what empathy is. Demonstrate to us that you understand the concept and what it means, rather than some dictionary definition.
Maybe you should start an empathy thread, or take this discussion where it can be topical and focused on. Empathy has no business here in this thread.
And you would have no business holding the position of doctor, policeman judge or lawyer with that attitude. Empathy is what gave rise to western secular law, not your bible. Empathy is why we don't have the problems the theocracies of the Middle East do.
My dad thought like you, thought hitting me was tough love. One day at the Marina when I was 6 or 7, I got into a pick up game of "smear the queer" which is where you throw a football up and whomever catches it everyone else tackles. Problem was these boys were much bigger, had to be 9 and up, and pummeled me beyond what friends do teasing each other, I was an easy target. It didn't take me long to realize I was in over my head. I left and went back to the boat.
My dad with an irritated voice asked me why I came back, I told him the other boys were hurting me. You know what he did? My dad punched me in the stomach and told me to go back out and play. Oh yea, I left, but simply hid from the other kids. I hated him for doing that to me. I needed comfort at that point, or to have him go back out with me and tell them to not be so rough. Nope, he thought he was making me tough. Now, if he were alive today I'd kick him in the nuts for doing that to me.
NOW FUCK YOU you don't have any psychological understanding what hitting and pain can do to a kid.
