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Old 23-02-2004, 17:45   #200
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Re: Should Corporal Punishment Be Brought Back ?

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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Excellent, real excellent post. I completely agree with you. Discipline needs to be taught, and the only way to teach discipline is negative reinforcement and punishment.

You do not see the military handing out candy when the soldiers are obedient. No. They get punished. Hard. Thats why it works in the military.

All evidence shows that positive reinforcement doesn't work for discipline. Look at today's society, and look at the military and yesterday's society. Easy to prove my point.
That is just another polarised view.

In the U.S.A. you have higher prison sentences than we have. In some places you also have the ultimate negative reinforcement, the death penalty, yet you still have a much higher crime rate than the U.K.
How does that "all evidence shows..." go again?
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