He is definitely not a biblebasher: I first ran into him on the Occult community.
No, his is a fundamentalism born of false extension: Making forceful contact with a child under any circumstances is as wrong as is backhanding your wife for talking back.
He and some of those who jumped in on the moral superiority theme say that they have raised children, and I have no reason to doubt them.
But the one who claimed to have looked after kids in a psychiatric hospital was under different circumstances: those kids were at an age where reason would work (even through psychosis), and had outgrown the effectiveness of smacking.
And in those cases where they had looked after small children, these were not their own. It is different when you are looking after someone else's kids: for one thing, it is not your place to smack: you have other methods you can use. For another, there is always the knowledge that at the end of the day you're giving them back, and you don't have to live with the consequences of bad discipline.
Ii can't tell them that, though, because his journal is screened for non-friends, and he is not, methinks, minded to allow this child abuser to have any more say on the subject.
And yes, you are right. It is not something you ever want to do, but there are times when something drastic must be done, and you do it, and deal with it, and they get over it.
If Sammelhain ever does have children of his own, I hope his principles live up to his experience.
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No, his is a fundamentalism born of false extension: Making forceful contact with a child under any circumstances is as wrong as is backhanding your wife for talking back.
He and some of those who jumped in on the moral superiority theme say that they have raised children, and I have no reason to doubt them.
But the one who claimed to have looked after kids in a psychiatric hospital was under different circumstances: those kids were at an age where reason would work (even through psychosis), and had outgrown the effectiveness of smacking.
And in those cases where they had looked after small children, these were not their own. It is different when you are looking after someone else's kids: for one thing, it is not your place to smack: you have other methods you can use. For another, there is always the knowledge that at the end of the day you're giving them back, and you don't have to live with the consequences of bad discipline.
Ii can't tell them that, though, because his journal is screened for non-friends, and he is not, methinks, minded to allow this child abuser to have any more say on the subject.
And yes, you are right. It is not something you ever want to do, but there are times when something drastic must be done, and you do it, and deal with it, and they get over it.
If Sammelhain ever does have children of his own, I hope his principles live up to his experience.