I am with you on that one. It is so easy to construct painfully obvious scenarios where it is completely OK because it is preferable to what would otherwise happen -- as in child about to put hand on very hot surface, reach up for handle of saucepan with boiling water, stick finger into electricity plug ...
Nigel Latta in Into the Darklands has some pretty scathing things to say about the anti-smacking moral high ground folk: his comments have particular weight because (1) he has bothered to read the research evidence and (2) he deals with the products of genuinely vile and appalling upbringings.
It is also preferable for one's Terribly Conspicuous Compassion to extend to those who happen to disagree, at least to the point of elementary politeness.
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Date: 2008-10-06 10:26 am (UTC)Nigel Latta in Into the Darklands has some pretty scathing things to say about the anti-smacking moral high ground folk: his comments have particular weight because (1) he has bothered to read the research evidence and (2) he deals with the products of genuinely vile and appalling upbringings.
It is also preferable for one's Terribly Conspicuous Compassion to extend to those who happen to disagree, at least to the point of elementary politeness.