Hope for America!!

[Losty]

Empathy is not nor ever will be the controlling factor in my life empathy will never be the deciding factor for anything.

This is the reason you're such a despicable person.

[Divinity]

Spanking is not an effective form of discipline. Studies show that spanking only discourages bad behavior for a short period of time. Kids will often return to the bad behavior not long after being spanked. Often within less than an hour. And you can spare me the bullshit of "My daddy spanked me, and I didn't act up after that!" Guess what? There's other contributing factors that you are ignoring. The spanking wasn't necessary to get you to stop. If you think otherwise you're probably a fucked up person anyway.

Spanking also creates feelings of resentment in most kids, and give them fantasies of revenge. I would know, because when my father spanked me, I would always think of ways to get him back. I turned out pretty fucking alright, but it's not because I was spanked, it was in SPITE of it. I raised my five kids, and my little sister--and I never spanked any of them. They never once gave me more trouble than I could handle. They all grew up healthy, happy, and decent people.

[Brian37]

Hit a child, and it's called discipline. Hit an adult, and it's called assault. I think that's the main reason they pick the rear end to hit as well, because you get a different reaction when you hit a kid in a place where the public can see it.

what is missing between hitting a child and hitting an adult?

Correction, Instruction and love. You hit an adult out of anger.

Bullshit, you still cannot crawl into a kids head and decide for them what is going on in their brain when you hit them. Every kid reacts differently. I can tell you what my parents smacking me did to me, and I am sure they too thought they were doing it out of love. 

And who says even between men, adults should be hitting each other? I fucking hate assholes who will fight at bars or over sports, or women, that is grade school bullshit. Even as an adult, you respond with your voice only, or you walk away. Nobody has the right to hit anyone, even if they offend you.

[Losty]

Hit a child, and it's called discipline. Hit an adult, and it's called assault. I think that's the main reason they pick the rear end to hit as well, because you get a different reaction when you hit a kid in a place where the public can see it.

what is missing between hitting a child and hitting an adult?

Correction, Instruction and love. You hit an adult out of anger.

It's funny because that was always my ex husband's excuse for hitting me too. Correction, instruction, and love.

[abaris]

It's funny because that was always my ex husband's excuse for hitting me too. Correction, instruction, and love.

And more power to you for giving him the boot.

[Athene]

So what, if it works? 
Setting your home on fire, will absolutely solve a termite problem.

And sometimes you have to burn it down to rebuild it the right way. We should not shun nor be afraid of taking things down to the foundation and rebuilding. The only time we shouldn't is if we will not be their to personally relay every single brick by hand if need be.

C'mon, Drich...You know that's Brainwashing 101.

Perfectly fine if you're trying to create a Manchurian Candidate or the next Patty Hearst, btw. I'm guessing that you'd prefer that a child be raised with his or her psyche intact, though. My point was, that there are ways to address the problem that far are less likely to cause such a degree of damage. 

With just a bit of extra thought, time and effort, the same desired result (correcting behavior/ teaching accountability) can be obtained; Without having to wonder if you've done more harm than good down the road.

[Silver]

The only hope for America is humility.

[The Valkyrie]

Beating children is the hope for America?

Don't tell me, nuking the Middle East is the hope for the world?

[Thumpalumpacus]

The sad thing, Lady, is that he isn't a troll. He truly believes what he puts up, and is not simply spouting off to get a rise.

He can be and has been dishonest -- but he is, honestly, a rectal cookie.

Probably a result of child abuse in his own youth, if I was to posit a guess.

too bad we can't give 1/2 a kudo

Of I could reject it, I would.

I don't like taking kudos from anyone so stupid they can't see they're being lambasted, not praised.

Protip: Sincerity is not the benchmark for veracious thinking. One can be, and in your case is, sincerely malignant and idiotic.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You think no one ever hit a child out of anger, or an adult out of love? The main difference between a child and an adult is that an adult can do more to protect themselves from you after you hit them.

No one should ever hit a child out of anger. Ever.

The love in hitting a child comes in the form of using control and communication to establish accontiblity and consenquence.

What association do you think.might develop as a result?