I respect your opinion. I just disagree about extreme cases.
There can be extreme cases, like the defense of self and others. In those cases it’s really outside the usual spanking/discipline discourse, other than the fact that kids who are spanked are likelier to have behaviorial problems and be violent.
I don’t believe in regularly hitting your kids for regular kid behavior.
But when the kid starts showing serial killer behavior, in my personal experience, fear of corporal punishment is sometimes the only thing keeping that kid from stabbing his sister while she’s napping.
Um. Maybe at that point it’s no longer a matter of corporal punishment? What if the fear doesn’t work, even once? That’s putting a child at risk of murder on the rather terrible theory that her would-be murderer’s fear of an ass-whooping (as opposed to, idk, watching him and keeping him away from children??) is enough to protect her life.
I read a story on the news that has been haunting me the last week.
about a 17/18 year old Somali boy (some links report him aged 17 at the time of his death) here in London. He went missing december last year and his family filed a missing person claim with the police, their last memory of him was at his sister’s wedding.
…..about 2 weeks ago his body was discovered in the attic of a house belonging to a white couple who stabbed him to death.
His body was discovered in august 2018.
He died december last year.
his name was Abdi Ali
there is little to no media coverage…I only heard about it through twitter.
I cannot imagine what the family is going through, in Islam, people are traditionally buried immediately once they pass away……to think that your loved one, a teenager, went missing and for months, you hoped that they would come back (with no help from the police)….to find out that he has been dead for over 8 months and his body was decomposing in the attic of the ones that killed him who lived less than 1.5 miles away from your family home is just such a morbid and depressing thought.
I read somewhere that his parents came from Somalia a decade ago to start a better life and safer life for their children, my heart goes out them all…to think you uprooted your entire family unit from their ancestral land because of the threat of violence and then this happening.
this is one photo of the Bodo League massacre, massive atrocities and war crimes committed by the Syngman Rhee regime backed by the US military. yes, the US military was involved in the execution of over 200,000 to 1.2 million innocent Korean civilians often peasants and farmers including women and children because they were falsely labeled “commies.”
please educate yourself and stop spreading misinformation and propaganda.
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This particular photograph has been sourced to massacres at Daejeon Prison, about two hours south of Seoul. The problem is, the Communist left and nationalist right were in control of the prison at different times during the war and they both committed massacres of prisoners. The Syngman Rhee regime did indeed murder around 5,000 prisoners between until mid-July of 1950 when they lost Daejeon to North Korea. The victims of these mass killings included the Bodo League prisoners, Jeju Islanders imprisoned during the post-independence massacres there, and members of the South Joson Labor Party.
After the South Korean forces were driven from Daejeon in a rout, the North Korean regime and their collaborators took over the prison and were in control of it from July 20 to September 29. They in turn filled up the prison with nationalists, police, and Korean and American POWs. When the North Koreans were in turn forced from the city, they massacred 3119 prisoners before they left.
The OP is right about the photograph in question and it is likely a photo of the massacre by North Korean Communists. Multiple Korean sources including a newspaper website agree with OP (link). Rhee’s nationalists transported their prisoners to the wilds where they buried them in secret, while the North Koreans, likely in a hurry due to the need to retreat, buried many of their victims in the prison fields. This photo looks more consistent with the latter event.
There’s plenty of photographic evidence of the right wing’s massacres of the prisoners at Daejeon, of course. Here’s a picture of one such mass shooting in progress:
There’s a lot more, of prisoners being transported in trucks, kneeling on the ground while awaiting their deaths, bodies in ditches etc. There’s a photo gallery of one major mass grave from this event being excavated in 2015 (link, see photo gallery).
So why don’t we accept both the left wing and right wing were evil murdering bastards and call it a day? The OP is right about the photo, and the nationalists as well as communists murdered civilians and prisoners en masse.
there are expressions in mando’a, boba knows, for family, and for brother, and for family-is-more-than-blood. there are words for no-longer-father, for disgraced parents who were not what their children needed or deserved.
he is ten years old, squatting in the geonosian sand, and he does not think there is a word for alone, does not think there is one for orphaned, does not think there is one for fatherless, that could describe how he feels right now.
his fathers teachings echo in his head.
assess the situation. list your resources.
boba fett is ten years old, grit in his eyes from the battle around him, and this is what he has: his father’s helmet, clutched tightly to his chest. the knife in his boot and the pistol on his hip. ( should have used them should have put a hole in the jetii’s back what kind of a mando are you if you can’t even save your family ) he has – what does he have?
twenty-some credits in the pockets of his tunic. a holocommunicator. he has – he has …
his father’s corpse, headless, bloodless, in the sand.
boba presses the helmet to his forehead and stifles the sting in his eyes, blames it on the sharp smell of ozone and burning flesh or the desert wind. he catches his own reflection in the dull silver metal, and tries to steady his breathing, imagines his father’s voice coming from inside of him.
i have myself. i have the will to fight, and i have my father’s face. i have what he taught me.
and it works, on some level, as he sees the gunships, remembers that the faces underneath the white helmets taking off now are the same as his. remembers where his father left slave one, and the many times he’d allowed boba to help fly it.
First tweet in thread by Don’t speak (@twitbyEva):
The funniest baggage complaint I ever heard of happened in Latin America, where the airline took out consigned luggage, a dog, at a stopover only to discover the animal was dead. Fearing a complaint, the airline somehow got a dog that looked just like the dead one and put it on the continuing flight.
Second tweet in thread:
The passenger, on picking the dog up at the arrival airport, was adamant that this was not their dog. The employee at the airport, knowing nothing of what had happened, said that was impossible. The passenger informed the employee that they had brought their dead dog home to hold a funeral. So how did it come back to life?
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