Corporal Punishment?

[Cinjin]

Consider it as if you were a monarch. You have two choices: to treat your people well and be loved, or to treat your people like scum and be feared.

First of all we're not talking about a monarch and a country, we're talking about the common misbehavior of a child. Secondly, saying that a monarch has to choose between only those two arbitrary choices during their rule is your own delusional fantasy. Catherine the Great was beloved, but she was known to be strong and disciplined in her reign. Regardless, the actions of an entire country's population regarding their ruler has NOTHING to do with the daily light discipline of a child. Apples and oranges.

This 'balance' you speak of is in that middle ground which has not the love of the first nor the fear of the second... control is lost and your government fallen.

Utterly ridiculous and your conclusion is a non-sequitur. Balance is essential to survival to everything on this planet. It's everywhere, and anywhere the world is out of balance - chaos follows. Balance of power, balance in the environment, balance in economics, balance of government .... essential to survival and essential to good discipline.

Your statement is simply incorrect. EPIC =