[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]Mettahl wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
“she was “emotionally abused” (lol’d)”
"Nor did anybody ever say they’d beat their children, let alone beat them with a “shit-eating grin”.
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Yeah, I’m not so sure now, you sick fuck.
And you’re wrong about the strawman, actually. That entails not addressing the actual factual issue, which I did before I proceeded to typify, through a fake scenario, the actions of a typical ass hole who beats his whole family for stupid reasons (or at all). The fact that it was NOT a straw man is shown further by that fact that I involved a direct quote by the father himself, where he claims that his preferred method of parenting is to beat his daughter into submission.
I guess I should stop arguing with you though, before you try to bend me over a bed and beat me with a belt.[/quote]
Lol, go ahead and google “ad hominem” while you’re at it.[/quote]
I’ll stick with having competed in LD debate throughout school. It turns out that you’re wrong again. I didn’t undermine your credibility (or that of your argument) with unrelated facts about you. I didn’t say anything along the lines of “you can’t listen to what this guy just said, he’s bald!” That would be ad hominem.
Maybe you should Google something before telling someone else to.
Anyways. There seems to be a lot of people mentioning that they got beat like this as a child, and that they are perfectly okay with doing the same. That’s exactly the problem: child abuse begets child abuse. It may not have affected you, and it may not have ruined your life, but then you aren’t representative of the average abused child.
There have been MANY studies on this in the past few years (I hear this shit all of the time, my wife is currently getting a psychology degree and loves telling me about what she’s learning) about how physical reprimand past spankings, such as beating with a belt, has the potential to be damaging to a person for the rest of their lives. Sexual deviance in youth, crime, violent by nature (basically abnormally short-tempered), and many other problems have been attributed to child abuse. And yes, this is considered child abuse.
All of the “I turned out fine, and so did my kids” comments don’t mean a whole lot, because statistics are greater than you and I.