@drewnogal said
In your earlier offensive quote, that has since been removed, you stated -
“Personality wise I can see that your parents spared the rod”.
Is it your honest view that children should sometimes receive physical punishment?
When it warrants it, absolutely. Don't you use physical means to deter cats from defecating on your garden?
When reason and patience are exhausted, and bad habits persist, then the rod should not be spared. Otherwise you will have rotten spoiled brats and spoiled vegetables growing in your garden. The fertilizer gets absorbed by the vegetables you grow, and then eat. As they say, we are what we eat. Spoiled children can corrupt a society, and a society's overall quality is determined by its worst members, much like a Hi-Fi musical reproduction system, by its weakest link in the chain of reproduction.
Are you trying to portray me as violent with your line of questioning?
I have ground squirrels eating up some of the vegetables in my garden, as well as the neighbor's garden. We set up traps. Caught three, and then drove them to a city park for release. If I could do the same with divegeester and a few others, there would be no need for the rod, nor for using mother analogies. Not that divegeester can't be caught in a trap, but the problem is that he manages to always find his way back from the place where he has been released so many times.
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