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Originally Posted by rubecube
If you had to be struck on numerous occasions for the same behaviour, doesn't that mean it didn't really work?
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Yeah, good point.
When I was a kid, we had some family friends and their kids got spanked all the time. So much so that when they came to visit, their mom would bring extra brushes or a wooden spoon to do the spanking because she (and everyone) knew she was going to use it. And sure enough she did, because those kids were hellraisers. Before they were 10, they were completely immune to it, of course. The implied threat and the actual carrying out of the whooping didn't change a thing. Eventually I guess it just stopped, and they continued to be hellraisers
There have been a few stories along the lines of "if my dad wasn't tough on me, I would have been a real loser", and they may be true (and who am I to argue?), but on the other hand, every prison is full of people who got smacked around and disciplined physically.