“I pointed out the logical conclusion of what you were advocating” If they were logical consequences, then yes. But they are not. You don't seem to be making any distinction based on severity or circumstance: your whole point is based around absolute moral equivalence. So when I say that there is a time and place, and you say that there never is, you are equating me with child abusers.
I say that it is not always wrong, you respond that it is... and that it is a monstrous act in all cases. I have spanked my children, therefore you have accused me of being a monster. I'm supposed to sit back and say “actually, yeah, fair cop, I'm a failure as a human being”?
“hyper reaction in your posts.” I reacted to what was thrown at me. And is still being thrown. “I do think that anyone who smacks a child is a monster.” Sorry, I get upset when people call me a monster. It's this thing I have.
“... acting with integrity or seriously evaluating your attitude toward a topic.” I am deadly serious in my evaluation. My evaluation of the topic is that your dogmatism on the issue verges on the insane.
“If for the first time in your life...” Fuck you. You don't know shit about me. You are assigning to me the bigoted stereotype you associate with the picture you obviously have of "Someone who beats children". I consider the happiness, present and future happiness of my children every day. If I ever have cause to spank, it is never something done lightly. I think about how everything I do effects my children whenever I am with them.
“Have I even rejected a single srened comment you have made?” When I wrote the above, you had been sitting on it for hours. (Maybe for good reason, maybe not, I had no way of knowing.) I had no way of knowing that you would ever unlock it. I am pleased that you have.
Words have effects. I can make you think of purple elephants, just by saying it. You have made me second-guess my own reactions... and not in a good way. Far, far from making me re-consider spanking, now it is all I can do to not think about doing so. It's not like I'm going to do it, but you have quite effectively poisoned my mind. Well done.
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Date: 2008-10-01 04:32 am (UTC)If they were logical consequences, then yes. But they are not. You don't seem to be making any distinction based on severity or circumstance: your whole point is based around absolute moral equivalence. So when I say that there is a time and place, and you say that there never is, you are equating me with child abusers.
I say that it is not always wrong, you respond that it is... and that it is a monstrous act in all cases. I have spanked my children, therefore you have accused me of being a monster. I'm supposed to sit back and say “actually, yeah, fair cop, I'm a failure as a human being”?
“hyper reaction in your posts.”
I reacted to what was thrown at me. And is still being thrown. “I do think that anyone who smacks a child is a monster.”
Sorry, I get upset when people call me a monster. It's this thing I have.
“... acting with integrity or seriously evaluating your attitude toward a topic.”
I am deadly serious in my evaluation. My evaluation of the topic is that your dogmatism on the issue verges on the insane.
“If for the first time in your life...”
Fuck you. You don't know shit about me. You are assigning to me the bigoted stereotype you associate with the picture you obviously have of "Someone who beats children". I consider the happiness, present and future happiness of my children every day. If I ever have cause to spank, it is never something done lightly. I think about how everything I do effects my children whenever I am with them.
“Have I even rejected a single srened comment you have made?”
When I wrote the above, you had been sitting on it for hours. (Maybe for good reason, maybe not, I had no way of knowing.) I had no way of knowing that you would ever unlock it. I am pleased that you have.
Words have effects. I can make you think of purple elephants, just by saying it. You have made me second-guess my own reactions... and not in a good way. Far, far from making me re-consider spanking, now it is all I can do to not think about doing so. It's not like I'm going to do it, but you have quite effectively poisoned my mind. Well done.