Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> Hmmm... does that mean that the entire humanity remained in the dark on
> that issue for millenia,
No, but in the US, now, I think what I wrote is quite valid, since the circumstances in which the personality forms here and now require that children develop a stronger ego than was necessary in many other historical circumstances.
> and the truth about evil effects of physicial
> punishment was only discovered by a group of brave US hippies ca 1969?
Historical inaccuracy.
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> My own thinking, admittedly based on old fashined analytical reasoning,
> goes as follows. Human behavior is a result of multiple factors as well as
> interaction among these factors. It takes a hell of the analytical work to
> attribute a particular outcome to a particular factor under particular
> circumstances.
Of course, no sane person disagrees.
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> PS. There is a difference between physical punishment and abuse. Abuse
> does not have to physical, emotional abuse is more common and often more
> damaging to a person's self-esteem than good old fashioned whacking.
Also true. But, if you look, I didn't say every single act of physical punishment is abusive. I said that legitimizing physical punishment social makes abuse inevitable. Hence, it is important to de-legitimize physical punishment if we are to significantly reduce abuse.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema