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TreasureKY -> RE: Spanked to death in the name of God? (8/21/2011 10:03:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto
What action, if any, should be taken on the author of the book To Train Up A Child the couple based their "discipline methods" on?
In my opinion, most likely none. I say "most likely" only because I haven't read the book and I've only seen one brief news report. That's hardly enough information to form a firm opinion.
That being said, I'm a pretty big advocate of people being responsible for their own actions and not the actions of other people.
It isn't that I feel that someone shouldn't be accountable for what they teach, but that they shouldn't be held responsible for the stupidity of others. While I haven't read the book in question, I did watch the short clip of the interview with the author. In it, he did state that his children never had marks on them after being punished. From that comment, I am going to assume that no where in his book did he advocate beating a child to death, or even half to death. While it was reported that his book did say that correction did require the administration of pain, I would think that any reasonable person would understand that the production of pain comes long before any visible damage.
Which brings me to the point that these people who murdered their daughter are obviously not reasonable. They are the guilty ones.
Holding one party responsible for the irresponsible actions of another is a slippery slope. For example, it has been widely reported that studies show a low calorie diet leads to a longer life. The following is just one of the news articles touting this information:
Restricting calories may increase life span
Now imagine some idiot reads this article and thinks if he withholds food from his elderly parents, they will live longer. The article doesn't specify exactly how many calories, so he ends up starving them to death.
Do you hold MSNBC responsible? They publicized the information.
How about the National Academy of Sciences. They reported the research.
What about the University of California? They facilitated the research.
And the National Institute on Aging? They hailed the research findings as "important".
It is very easy to start blaming everyone else in this hypothetical situation, but it really boils down to the idiot being an idiot.
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