Lolliklauer wrote:Billy Rhomboid wrote:Lolliklauer wrote:If used to children, corporal punishment causes them to use violence by themselves when they are strong enough. Plus maybe establish a feeling that it's good to follow authority.
'zat right?
I went to school during an age when it was quite normal to be beaten with a cane for misdemeanours. Which could be as serious as 'having the top button of one's shirt undone', for example. Talking in class rresulted in getting a wooden board rubber thrown at one's head or a metre-rule across the knuckles. Not saying that was a good thing, but then again, I have yet to discover my violent side, or my obedience to authority. Same goes for many anarchists, old-school punks and rockers, revolutionaries and activists of my acquaintance, but hey, perhaps we didn't read the right social science textbooks.
Now that I am better informed i shall go out and kick someone's head in then report myself to the police.
No, i didn't mean it that way. I think it's because my english is not very good, sorry for that. Of course you are right that it doesn't "make" you use violence if you were beaten as a child. But it's evident that the statistical possibility is higher that people will use violence if they had experienced it as a child. I am sure that it's definitely a bad thing to do for educational purposes. But it is much worse if parents don't care about their children at all. So i would say an education with too much authority is better than no education. But there are much better ways to care for children and educate them well without the use of violence.
Yeah, sorry I may have over-reacted a bit there (it's my suppressed violent side coming out) - was having a very bad day in a worse week.
Chill out dude, take a glass of water, smell some flowers 
