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[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

It helps to see a distinction between punishment, a word related to "penalty,"
and this:

Joanna Sheldon wrote:


>  a well-timed, well-gauged, well-meant bum swat

when it is a response to a very young, barely verbal child doing something like
running into the street. For one thing, the adult tends not to be angry, and to
be puffing him/herself up to be doing "justice," (better described, in this
case, as the rationalization of aggression via the superego.)

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema