• @fortress989@lemmy.world
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    -48 months ago

    This issue is one of the only debates in the world that I don’t have a strong stance about. How the hell do you balance the fact that the kids are evil little (or large) monsters in desperate need of discipline with the fact that the ones passing judgement on them are no better?

    • Flying Squid
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      48 months ago

      Teaching a child “I will hurt you if you don’t do what I want” is called bullying. That’s why we stop children doing it to other children.

      It teaches them nothing but to fear you and possibly to pass that idea that children should fear their parents on to their own children.