Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Consider Yourself Spanked, Young Man

One of the news articles, out of Britain, yesterday, dealt with the House of Lords voting on a bill regarding parental spanking of children.  Does anyone other than I see the ridiculousness of this?  Government involvement in setting rules, or law, regarding spanking?  Judas Priest, what in the world is going on when a body of politicians is discussing regulating spanking?

I was spanked a handful of times, or so, when I was a kid, and I bear no ill will towards my parents regarding this fact, and carry no scars or secret desires to inflict unmitigated violence against my children, or revenge on my parents.

Be that as it may, Arthur Silber has taken a look at this story, frowningly, and has come to the conclusion, that spanking is just a step away from torturing your children, and is in some way causally tied to the incidents at Abu Ghraib.

I think individuals who make the leap from spanking a kid on the ass, to beating them or torturing them, have a wee bit of a problem understanding that spanking is not beating or torturing, and parents who go beyond spanking and venture into the dark and terrible world of torturing their children, or beating their children, are worth no more than the detritus that gathers on the bottom of my shoes.

Posted by John Venlet on 07/06 at 02:26 AM
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