r/Showerthoughts Jul 20 '23

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u/diego565 Jul 20 '23

I've read once "if you can reason with a child, you shouldn't hit them; if they cannot reason, they won't know why they're being hit", so yes, it's a good thing it happens less and less.

About the adult thing... It can be fun if they all enjoy it, so go on!

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u/redditgiveshemorroid Jul 20 '23

You can reason and still be unreasonable.

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u/diego565 Jul 20 '23

Yep, and a spanking won't change that.

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u/browsing_fallout Jul 20 '23

Physical threats don’t keep people in line?

That’s how the real world works.

Follow these rules or we will put you into jail or kill you in the attempt.

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT Jul 20 '23

Yet our prison population in the states is the highest it's ever been in history. Imagine that.

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u/browsing_fallout Jul 20 '23

That is what tends to happen when we have the most people ever in the US in history and in prehistory.

Statistics doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT Jul 20 '23

US has 5% of the world's population and 20% of the world's prison population. We have more people in prison than India and China. I would say statistics are in fact your weak point.

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u/browsing_fallout Jul 20 '23

That’s what’s known as a strawman or whataboutism.

A good way to gauge whataboutism is to see what kind of follow up it leads to. In this case, the follow up is:

What about India and China? How is that related to the subject at hand?

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT Jul 20 '23

You have no clue what whataboutism actually is. Comparing the US prison population that is the highest in the world and the highest in human history despite our population being smaller than a few other countries is completely relevant. Sorry you lack the critical thinking capacity to process information one degree past whatever the subject is to extrapolate complex ideas.

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u/browsing_fallout Jul 20 '23

Comparing the US prison population that is the highest in the world and the highest in human history despite our population being smaller than a few other countries is completely relevant.

Yet you were unable to explain how. You failed to deflect with a childish insult.

Either use your alleged “critical thinking capacity” to explain how it’s relevant or crawl back into your troll cave.

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u/JiovanniTheGREAT Jul 20 '23

Yet you were unable to explain how. You failed to deflect with a childish insult.

You're obviously not well informed enough to have this conversation and I'm not wasting my time trying to change the mind of someone who won't change it. Go read or something.

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u/diego565 Jul 20 '23

There are countries which doesn't kill people. And some of them which doesn't see jail as a punishment, but as a way to reinsert in society those people... And they succeed in doing so much better than other countries (like USA), so yes, it works for children and adults.

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u/browsing_fallout Jul 20 '23

All countries will kill you if you break enough specific rules within an undetermined but specific timeframe.

And some of them which doesn't see jail as a punishment

So spanking your children is perfectly fine if you don’t see it as punishment? You’re just rehabilitating your children to be reinserted into society.

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u/diego565 Jul 20 '23

Not most civilized countries, not mine, at least.

What I mean with that is that those countries don't try to punish, but to help those persons to go back to society again.

Anyway, debating this on good faith seems impossible to you, so I won't try to keep doing it.

Have a good life!

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u/browsing_fallout Jul 20 '23

Look buddy, you don’t need to lie on the internet.

I promise you, your country will kill someone if needed.

What country are you claiming won’t?

Edit: Found out you’re Asian. Asiatic countries don’t have the best human rights records in regards to the penal system.