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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (66182)12/12/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Well, we disagree. I think that it is you who are having difficulty responding to the sequence of points, but suspect we will never agree on this.

The government has an interest in interfering with pathological family relationships in order to protect society from damaged people who sap its resources and become prey. I am an advocate of increased rights for children, including the right not to be injured physically or emotionally by larger, more powerful people. I guess I could ask a question which is to me more to the point--why on earth should people who think like you assume that they have the inherent right to hurt children? Perhaps if you answered that I would understand your position better.

As I reported in a previous post, Sweden made spanking illegal in 1979. The percentage of child deaths attributable to child abuse then went from 18% at that time to zero percent now. Not only that, but since spanking is learned behavior, the society in the future will be all the healthier for it. Is there something wrong with that? I think it is just wonderful. Parents still have all their rights except the right to hurt their children, which I don't believe should be a parental right in the first place. On what grounds do you believe they do?
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