Wednesday, February 22, 2006

No Cogent Answers from the Pro-Smacking Brigade

According to the latest: The Old Schoolhouse has withdrawn all public information about the tour, but intend to carry on 'privately.'

Ho hum. Given the number of pro-smacking people, even within the HE community, that this debacle has flushed out, I suppose this now less publisized tour by pro-child beaters represents but just the tiny tip of an enormous ice-berg, even one of glacial proportions, whose inevitable sweep one would be wise to accept - but this concession seems almost inconceivably sad.

So rather than to concede to hopelessness, and since I am yet to receive any cogent answers to the following questions, I will pose them once more:

"How, in justifying hitting your children, do you argue that someone else should not hit you?"

and

"How do you convey the doctrine of the minimal use of violence to your children?"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Merry,

Am I right in thinking that you are not exactly of the pro-smacking lobby? It sounds from what you are saying when you equate smacking with a tantrum, that this is a second rate solution to solving a problem, and that you think that there are actually potentially better ways to solve the problem? Would you call smacking a failure to solve problems in the best possible way?