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Originally Posted by Xaccers
I don't know of anyone on this forum that advocates assualting children
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Originally Posted by timewarrior2001
I admit on more than one occasion I have commited common assault on a teenager. And actually yes I am quite proud of it, because the litte **** needed a lesson in humility.
I have no time for the tarquin has a behavioural problem brigade, what tarquin needs is a bloody good thrashing off someone.
I was well pleased that the 13 year old was jailed ...
Perhaps once he's had a few good beatings in prison he will start to learn
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
So why is society getting more violent and not less?
50 years ago most children got the belt or spoon at home, or the cane (or witnessed) at school.
By that reasoning, the majority of adults in the UK should be violent thugs and bullies.
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Because society and our culture has in the whole changed massivly in the past 50 years?!
You're surely not suggesting that the only possible reason that things aren't the same as 50 years ago (which, by my reconing was the end of the second world war - hardly the best example of society) is because of corporal punishment being taken out of schools?