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Aswad -> RE: Why A Slave? (6/6/2013 9:45:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Greta75
I felt pretty insane at their answers then as I don't approve of corporal punishment for children.
There's no problem per se with corporal punishment for children, unless one inflicts injuries. But overusing it tends to lead to a problem, which is the lack of good porportionality between actions and reactions, which impairs learning of cultural norms and morality.
In an average kid, a bit of spanking does no harm, but neither does it do any good.
The real problem is parents who lack a sense of porportionality, which has been the case in every case I've seen where parents have been charged with violent abuse of their children. The rest of us don't need to use corporal punishment in rearing an average kid, for the simple reason that introducing porportionality early on tends to lead to avoiding things that might call for corporal punishment to preserve that porportionality.
Simply put, if you beat your kids for every little thing, whatcha gonna do if they do something real bad?
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Try to show disapproval, but cannot interfere with another country's culture.
Bullshit.
A lot of countries have made their foreign aid efforts contingent on active work to change attitudes in the culture of the recipient nation. Sweden has been campaigning in this way to get Uganda to respect LGBTs. Part of what was done in the military intervention in Afghanistan was to attempt to change the Pashtunwali cultural elements to improve conditions for women, which has been successful in some areas, though it remains to be seen if there will be any long term effects.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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