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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpanking is only the beginning. There is so much more you must do
Apparently corporal punishment is one of those trigger topics that make some people behave like the adults in Footloose.
A group with too much time on their hands have decided, rather than minding their own business, they have to attack DU parents for swatting misbehaving kids on the butt. The argument goes like this - The government should prevent parents from engaging in activity that might harm children or might result in future harmful effects. Spanking might harm children or cause future harmful effects. Therefore the government should prevent spanking.
In other words, because spanking can cause problems for kids later in life, then we must stigmatize parents, encourage the government to invade our private lives and generally behave like lemmings eager to jump into the water of despotic authoritarianism.
Of course, the same is true for television, sports, video games, bicycles, rock music, pools, fast food, and public schools. Because each of these things has the potential to cause physical, mental, emotional, and/or behavioral problems, those who are attacking people who scoff at a ban on spanking should include the previous list to their things the government should arrest parents for doing.
To fail to do so is a tacit admission of hypocrisy.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Pure strawman.
The real argument is that the government should prevent you from physically assaulting another human being. Even if you think you 'own' them because you gave birth to them, or adopted them, or are fostering them.
There's no 'might harm' and there's no 'result in future harmful effects'.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)You win!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Johonny
(20,879 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Coventina
(27,169 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)and spanking does harm children. there is a mountain of evidence to attest to that claim- not might, does.
I don't claim to know what the answer is beyond education.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Tikki
1dogleft
(164 posts)isn't coldcock when you knock someone out
tularetom
(23,664 posts)So I won't.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)and that's the SMART part!
Only thing he forgot was a hearty Get off my lawn!
edgineered
(2,101 posts)Defenders, and their ilk, can proudly claim
that being beat half to death,
twice, has caused no harm.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Is that what you do? You 'swat' your kids?
You realize that when you hit your kid, you are admitting to failure as a parent? Nah, bet not.
This is one of the saddest OPs I've ever seen on DU. Almost like a cry for help.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)A bit too many posts about this - someone is protesting too much. Makes me a bit ill, tbh.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)And why do you defend hitting children?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)also, you forgot the guns = cars thingy
You win "The stupidest post on du" today