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- From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Cryin' baby express ... what to do?
- Message-ID: <24249@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 09:12:26 GMT
- References: <BrwzCF.5Ey@world.std.com> <mcnally.712021277@wsl.pa.dec.com> <17297@autodesk.COM>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- Lines: 27
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- In article <17297@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
- =>In article <mcnally.712021277@wsl.pa.dec.com> mcnally@wsl.dec.com (Mike McNally) writes:
- =>>
- =>>There's "correcting" and there's "correcting". The evidence is pretty
- =>>convincing that direct physical punishment tends to teach children that
- =>>a valid way of affecting the behavior of another person is to assault
- =>>that person.
- =>
- =>I would say that a direct physical attack is definitely going to go
- =>a long way toward altering someone's behavior, yes.
- =>
- =>>
- =>>Coporal punishment of children is illegal in Sweden and has been for
- =>>some time. I wonder if more and more Swedes are brats with problems?
- =>
- =>The rate of suicide and alchoholism is higher in Sweden. It must
- =>be all those parents whose kids are driving them up the wall.
-
- I know it's kinda boorish to bring Facts into Peevetown (check 'em at the
- gate, honey) but this is an invention of Old Mr Eisenhower, and has no
- basis in reality.
-
-
- --
- -Jeremy Henderson egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk
-
- (or am I?)
-