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On spanking and physically disciplining a child and feminism
I myself had a rather abusive dad (well he's still my dad I didn't get adopted or anything) as a child. I know how it feels to flinch at the very sight of a guy who wants nothing more than to see you cry. He only stopped because at 14-15 I began fighting back hard. By 16 he'd realized I actually could put up a good fight even though I was skinny as f*** so he totally gave it up.
The only things he achieved through this were making me feel hostile and threatened much like a pet dog that one kicks rather than scolding verbally and treating well at other times. Being too harsh is, so to say, like being too for to either wing of economics perhaps.
Too far left and you're too kind on the lazy, too far right and you're too harsh. It's all about balance and since I'm a proud non-feminist I hereby will say; I would never hit a woman unless it was 100% her or me/someone I cared about and the same goes for a child. I would never hit a child or a woman unless serious things were at threat if I didn't. My child misbehaving is not a reason for me to use my masculine adult strength against them. I can understand a frustrated mother perhaps lashing out at her child now and again, women have less control over their emotions etc than men and that is simply why men's role must be to protect the women and children of whatever society they come from.
I don't care if women can be stronger than men, it is psychology too; men who lash out truly do so out of malice it is not out of genuine frustration. If your child is actually that malicious that they intentionally drive you insane rather than just misbehave perhaps that child is not for you to raise and giving it to foster care or adoption is your way out. Don't beat your child as a man, it's just pathetic and makes you look really shit when that kid grows and you age and bam, "right back at you dad". The kid will either grow to abuse their own children or they will grow to hate you, it is never neither.
If you had left spanking out of your title, your post would have merit. Beating is totally different from spanking. If people truly love their children, a spanking does wonders to help them grow up securely with respect for authority, respect for employers, respect for parents, respect for everyone! It also helps schools run more smoothly when teachers are not trying to control children with no respect from discipline.
I'm sorry for your childhood beatings. No child deserves that but the sad fact is it does happen. I'm glad you are determined to stop the cycle.
You are the loser to sentence so many children to lousy lives because of lack of discipline which gives them the knowledge of right and wrong and the understanding to relate with others, respecting their employers, teachers, parents, etc.
It is those who refuse to spank who many times harm their cildren's future. Discipline is good for children and spanking works wonderfully. Beating is TOTALLY DIFFERENT for those of us with half a brain, who can think for themselves and do not let political correct Liberals tell you how to raise your kids.
You were probably spanked as a kid, that's why you agree with it now. I am so sorry, I never realized how terrible your childhood was (with all that spanking) That's probably why you can't come up with a decent argument.
Of course I was spanked as a child because I had good intelligent parents. I am very thankful for those few spankings that I deserved. They truly taught me respect for authority and respect for other's.
I spanked my children as well and they have grown up to be good responsible adults.
I'm sure they will spank their kids as well because they learned simple common sense intelligence from their childhood.
Many kids today are jealous of children who actually have both parents at home. They are jealous of kids who have Parents who love their children enough to discipline them rather then only trying to be their buddies. Parents who can say no to their children when they want to go to those drinking parties, etc.
Being good parents takes work and effort. It's not giving them the keys to the car just to get them out of your hair.
Parents do not have the right to hiut their kids. Kids have the right to feel safe. Children are not property. I love how conservatives defend child abuse.
Spanking is child abuse in your eyes and parents should be arrested in your view but your government lets drug offenders out of jail ? Make that twisted connection for me if you can !
You want to put parents in jail for spanking a child but your government is letting drug offenders out of jail on to the streets ! Show me the mindset of this twisted thinking in a rational way if you may !
Why should one be jailed for spanking yet another be let out of jail for drug offenses ? There is a Leftist disconnect there. So make the connection for me as it pertains to your Leftist World !
I am a committed prolifer, and who I vote for is none of your business. Single issue voters are what is wrong with this county. Show me prolife liberal, and I will vote for him or her.
No, when a person supported the Nazi party, they supported the killing of Jews no matter how many other issues they agreed with. When you vote for a party that supports even late term abortions for any reason, you support the same. Don't insult pro life people by denying that simple truth.
If you are given two options, you can't say that not picking a third means you entirely endorse which of the two you chose over the other. Your lack of perception is perhaps why you are such an angry individual, inability to see past conflict is what loses wars, not wins them.
So tell me, if you voted for a KKK member, are you responsible for any racist legislation he might pass? If you say no, then what a joke.
We are all responsible for the people we elect. If you knowingly vote for someone who supports any type of inhumanity, you are responsible for the very humanity he supports. To deny this only proves how far into this no fault gutter we have fallen.
It is so utterly obvious and for anyone to deny it truly describes the progressive mentality.
You are smarter than that I believe, I hope. When I voted for Bush, there was no issue on the ballot of an Iraq war and no one had a clue about 911. Now when voting for Bush, If I had known he was going to go to war with Iraq, and his opponent would not go to war (by the way, the Democrats also supported the Iraq war), then I would have been partly responsible for going to war. I actually supported that war thinking the insane hussein was getting close to a weapon of mass destruction . I truly believe that Bush also believed Hussein was getting close to a weapon of mass destruction. There was never any proof of corruption and purposely lieing about there not being any weapons. You have been listening to the Left wing rhetoric for too long.
When you vote for a Pro abortion politician, you already know his position on abortion and how he will fight to keep it legal for any reason at any stage. Those who vote for these people and then say they are personally pro life are complete phonies.
The people who voted for Obama the second time knew that Obama would not change Obamacare and the GOP would. Those people kept Obamacare as it is, a complete failure as we are seeing and now Healthcare providers are dropping out of it.
We are all responsible for the things politicians support when we vote. Don't insult our intelligence to deny the obvious.
Why would you feel sorry for my children? They have grown up instilled with moral values and a hard work ethic. They have gotten jobs, support their children, ALL without Government assistance!
Imagine such a notion. These are the children who will pay for Government handouts supporting your future children, and future social security, etc.
You better pray there are a lot more children raised by Conservatives.