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Date Posted: 08:55:09 04/03/09 Fri
Author: James
Subject: Amazing

Every year children die in corporal punishment sessions where they are literally beaten to death. I see little good reason to retain this system because it is completely arbitrary. When corporal punishments were used to punish criminals they were convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, and sentenced by a presumable fair and impartial judge. These judicial punishments took place with and where still legal; they take place with a doctor monitoring the event to ensure that the person is not killed. Most parents have little knowledge of human biology, and many are plain idiots. I have a difficult time accepting the proposition that due to a person's age or status; that they can be moderately tortured at the whim of a psyco parent-all legal. I have seen no state law that states a child must do something wrong to be corporeally punished, the laws only concern the amount of or injuries caused by the moderate torture. When someone is wrongfully sent to prison there is almost always compensation given, when an adult crosses the line and instigates violence to another, the person is subject to civil liability, and criminal in some cases. A child spanked to the fullest extent of the law, who is later found to have done nothing wrong is responded to with "oh well". When a parent does cross the line and is willing to step up and accept responsibility, they face the possibility of their family being torn apart, criminal prosecution, custody issues, ect. Is this for of discipline so great and so wonderfully necessary that it out weighs the harm?

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