@al
The point stands, though. The question is one of the permissibility of hitting, not whom you're hitting.


And, yes, I do think that corporal punishment of children is, at times, justified. The very young won't respond to reason, on account of their being young. And I don't see that reason is all that morally different from violence anyway, for reasons we don't have to get into here. (Suffice it to say that I'm slowly working on a number of papers on this theme.) Whether that's the better for violence, or the worse for reason, I leave open. I don't care.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 13:07, Reply)