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Originally posted by 547000
You people are so predictable. You are just trying to remove teaching morality and discipline from the hands of the family into the state. In fact many people argue that teaching religion is a form of child abuse, but have no qualms with the state indoctrinating kids to be secular humanists. I wonder if homeschooling will be banned next on some silly pretext.
Originally posted by FingerMan
You take Muzzleflash out of context with your quotes. Don't get personal. Debate the issue.
If this truly is an old video, then why oh why has it become the scorn of the internet as of late?
It was even on Foxnews.com LOL!
Originally posted by graphuto
Dude I kind of wanted to say the same thing. The people that frequent this site I thought were all about keeping nanny state to a minimum, but it's this exact kind of crazy false outrage at something that is a non issue that gets all of this crazy binding legislature passed...
Originally posted by graphuto
Yea, this whole thread is kind of the most disturbing thing in that regard. 120+ flags and 60 pages of replies of everyone crying "abuse, abuse!"
I mean, the support for the nanny state BS is just so overwhelming that it's mind boggling.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
I have not seen a single person debate that child abuse is good. It's not good it's unacceptable and disgusting.
However the OP video is not child abuse technically by law, nor is it defined as such after reasonable inspection of the facts available.
You can drop the holier than thou speeches. You keep acting like if people care about this story, that we all the sudden don't care about anything else. I think most people DO care about all those things PLUS this story. How is this so hard to comprehend?
Originally posted by muzzleflash
I slept on it.
I can't believe I even entertained you folks yesterday.
This is the most overblown and absurd story of the year, BY FAR.
I am so disappointed in the emotional knee-jerk reactions you people fell for.
Brainwashing is easy, all that is required is to hit your emotions and boom, your under the spell.
I've seen bombings, murders, trillion dollar thefts, poisons all over, and THIS - a tame belt whipping - somehow is a hotter topic than all of the others.
Belt whipping > Tsunamis > War > Politics > Economy
That's the order of how important these issues are, with belt whipping being the most important.
Ok? You even said in the first page of this thread that he went over the line(ie. is abusive), and now you're trying to sell us on the story that you just support parent's legal rights? That would be like me saying, "I don't support rape, but I am supporting sex with anybody, regardless of the outcome". So you don't condone the parents actions, you don't condone child beatings, but, you condone parents doing anything they want to their kids, which could include child beating.....got it.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
I don't support child beaters, stop painting me in nonfactual ways.
I am supporting parents legal right to discipline their kids however.
There is a difference.
Originally posted by muse7
I don't care if some complain about a "nazi state" but no one, not even parents should be allowed to discipline their children with violence.