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From Phillyblog comes the end of the debate about how to make Philadelphia schools better. The solution: Parents should spank their kids! From a user we’ll call RuggerAl, since that is his username:
My parents hit me when I messed up bad, the total number of times could be counted on two hands or less. And as a direct result, the thought went through my head before I did something questionable… “Am I going to get a whopping for this?” My sister, much wiser and four years younger, learned many a lesson through me. To quote my dad quoting my grandmother “A soft head makes a soft behind.”
Okay, fair enough. But, I mean, do you have any reasoning for it besides of the fact you were hit? Oh, you do? Carry on, then.
More or less, the thing about beatings [if you can't say it well yourself, use someone else's words] circa Starship Troopers (1997)
Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn’t solve anything.
Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that.
Jean Rasczak (to Carmen): You.
Carmen: They wouldn’t say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed.
Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn’t solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.
Jean Rasczak: All right, let’s sum up. This year in history, we talked about the failure of democracy. How the social scientists of the 21st Century brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and imposed the stability that has lasted for generations since. We talked about the rights and privileges between those who served in the armed forces and those who haven’t, therefore called citizens and civilians.
Jean Rasczak: You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?
Student: It’s a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.
Jean Rasczak: No. Something given has no basis in value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
The meaning behind those words are exactly reflected in the either shallow and/or promised show of force (retalitory beatings) that TheAdlerian tells parents who strike/beat their children.
The presence of force/violence makes things happen. Even if a child may not fully understand that dynamic, it is an important lesson to learn at an early age. Kids know that a stove is hot and not to touch it, but maybe not necessarily how a stove works. Knowing that there could be “severe”… punishment helps curtail bad behavior because there is a cost-benefit situation. Again, most 3rd graders probably don’t know what a cost-benefit situation is by definition, but when it comes to acting up in the store and running around when mommy and daddy are tired- they know the difference between having fun and running around and having a sore bottom and no desert…
Ha ha! I can’t wait ’til his next theory, based on quotes from Matinee, starring John Goodman.
Rich kids, poor kids–they all need a butt-whooping [Phillyblog]
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