irishScott
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- Oct 10, 2006
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Troll this. Who said I beat my kids like this? What makes you think I would have to beat them?
Look I get it. Most of you are appalled by the beating. I am not affected by it in the same way. Many people just can't handle corporate punishment, I can.
Well the fact that you're defending the action with the rationalization that his parents probably beat him the same way, along with your admission that your parents beat you like that, implies you do/have done similar. If it was something your parents did that you disagreed with you wouldn't be defending it.
The vid in the OP goes far, FAR beyond corporal punishment. He could have accomplished the same objective with a tiny fraction of said punishment. Instead he went all out and even seemed to be enjoying it. That's abuse.
Also, even if his parents did raise him the same way, that's not justification. That's simply transfer of abuse, a common and well-known psychological phenomena. Parents beat kid, kid grows up and becomes parent, new parent has unresolved baggage from childhood and takes it out on his/her kids since mommy and daddy are out of reach. It's especially common in men.
I've seen it and experienced it first-hand. Fortunately my dad waited until I was taller, stronger, and much less dependent on him to try and start shit. Suffice it to say I was in charge of my mom's physical security for several years up until she died in Sept from 10 years of cancer. I let things escalate for a month before I stepped in at age 17 when he pulled a judo move on her. Since that night there wasn't a single intentional physical incident until she died.
^^That's as concise as I can get it. You can PM me if you want the gory details, but I'm not making a sympathy plug. That part of my life ended with finality at my mom's passing. My point is I know corporal punishment from my ironically ideal childhood, and I know abuse far more than anyone should, was the entirety of my adolescence in various forms. I've seen my mom battered physically and emotionally, and I've felt the fear. I know what it looks like, and nothing about that video is a loving parent disciplining his/her kid. Combined with the mom's account about how she was abused into teaming up on her daughter, that tells me everything I need to know about the situation to make a damn good educated guess.
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