“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”
-Solomon as recorded in Proverbs 13:24
In a rigidly Patriarchal, illiterate, slave-owning society, with little social mobility, that might be true. Fortunately, we imagine ourselves to live in a representative democracy where every person has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whipping children with a belt, or hitting them with a switch, until they scream and cry and beg for mercy, just doesn't seem appropriate to me in the country that we imagine ourselves to be. Were you ever whipped with a belt? Did you scream and cry for mercy?
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William Schaeffer
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