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Originally posted by Melusine:
Why do you assume that the people who are anti-spanking have no children and the ones that are pro-spanking do? Johnny argues for spanking, yet to my knowledge is not raising children (correct me if I'm wrong Johnny!!) and there are also plenty of families in which the parents do not spank on principle. Also, you suggest people who spank their children do so because they "cannot control their tempers". Yet I've seen many people argue for spanking as a punishment, but only doing it AFTER THEY'VE COOLED DOWN. They agreed that hitting a child out of frustration is wrong, and the spanking should be applied cool-headedly.
So the "wait till you have kids of your own" argument doesn't hold water, nor does the uncontrollable temper one.
I'm not gonna get too mixed up in this can of worms any further, BTW, the last debate on it is still very fresh in my mind. 
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All that I was saying is that is easy to argue that anti-spanking in theory but went comes to real life, *sigh* is another story altogether.
It is like saying ...bal bla bla...death sentence is bad...bla, bla, bla. Wait until the victim of the crime happens to be someone close to you. (on an unrelated example)
And from what I have witnessed so far (from my friends and relatives), most of them spanked thier kids when they are mad. Yes, of course everyone will say the opposite but based on my observant, this is relatively true.
I spanked my daughter when I was mad. Very very mad. After I have cooled down, I felt sorry for what I did. I can argue that this the kind of punishment she deserved for misbehaving badly but out from my heart, I know that I spanked her because I lost control of my temper. If I had cooled down earlier, I would have confined her to the room or something.
As I remembered my childhood, most of my spankings occured when I made my parents loose their temper, although I can't say that *ALL* the parents spank their children while in their worst possible mood, but I am sure a certain percentage of that is true.
Until I can master the art of purging my emotion through Vulcan meditation, I will spank my daughter from time to time; when she drives me crazy. I am not proud of what I did, but I did it nonetheless.
PEACE. LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.
[ 08-10-2003, 01:35 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]