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Originally Posted by MattyC
And while hitting is not the most effective punishment, he's probably lucky that kid's dad didn't beat the living s*** out of him.
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I disagree. Pylon said he was nine in that story. Nine year-olds are complete idiots at the best of times. As an adult, you should be able to exercise a bit of restraint. The issue in that story, from my perspective, is that pylon lacked empathy. You can't teach empathy by beating someone with a garden hose.
To be a bit of an armchair psychiatrist, I think that pylon's upbringing has likely shaped some of the views he has today towards punishment vs. discipline/rehabilitation, and I would also argue that he still displays a lack of empathy in some of his posts.
Now that probably makes me sound like a someone who was coddled as a kid, but the reality is my childhood was actually supremely ####ty and I had two abusive parents, so deduce what you will from that.