• zloubida@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    9 days ago

    I have children and I’d lie if I said that occasionally they make me angry, and sometimes very angry. But I’m the adult, they’re not, hitting them will teach them absolutely nothing. You won’t teach them empathy showing that you have none for them when you’re angry.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      89·
      9 days ago

      You’ve successfully described why I don’t spank them and articulated that you understand the impulse so… Thanks for agreeing with me in the weirdest way possible I guess

      • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        9 days ago

        If you recognise the urge and haven’t followed through, I assume you wouldn’t call it “morally acceptable”, but it really sounded like you were agreeing with that position originally.

        • krashmo@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 days ago

          I think it’s understandable that people feel that spanking is fine and it isn’t surprising to me at all. I don’t feel the same but it’s not a shock to see that like the original comment I replied to

      • brennesel@discuss.tchncs.de
        92·
        9 days ago

        If that’s what you meant to say, you’re extremely bad at expressing it. After all, you wrote this:

        … if you’ve never thought that spanking a child might be a good idea then you don’t have kids. Those little shits don’t understand empathy or anything else that you’re appealing to when you say violence is never the answer.

        That’s exactly the opposite of the comment you were replying to. You’re not saying that parents sometimes get angry, but that they consider violence to be a solution. That’s not the same thing!