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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Please Don't Spank!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.183229.19525@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 18:32:29 GMT
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- In <135890003@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
- pt@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Perry Taidi) writes:
-
- >I believe obediance is dangerous, because the child learns to follow someone
- >elses reasoning (or emotions) rather than their own and this will not stop
- >with only their parents. they will not work on developping their own reasoning
- >and they will be very much in danger of "obeying" anyone
- >with higher power or might. This person can be any adult when they are
- >children, and any one with with higher power when they are adults. If you are
- >interested in this aspect I would refer you to the analysis of why the
- >German people followed Hitler and did the most "unhuman" things , from a
- >psychological point of view, by Alice Miller. I have personally seen the
- >consequences of a whole nation going under when the wrong person is at the
- >power point and the majority of people have been taught to "obey authority".
-
- An interesting, and terrifying, book on this subject is Stanley
- Milgram's "Obedience to Authority", published in the UK by Tavistock,
- and simultanously in the USA by Harper & Row, in 1974.
-
- (NB Milgram's book is all about relationships between adults, and has no
- references to spanking!)
- --
- Gus Rodgers, Dept. of Computer Science, | "The truth of a property said to be
- Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End | approximate is something quite diff-
- Road, London, England. +44 71 975 5241 | erent from the approximate truth of
- E-mail (JANET): arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk | a property said to be exact."J.Nicod
-