How do you feel about corporeal punishment?

Asked By: Durion23 18-21, M 1 year ago

Physical punishment instead of jail time.

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I am more referring to adult criminals than children.

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Posted by staire Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:41PM

never did me anyharm,it shows repect,a few people around here could do with a good slap,

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Posted by BarvoDelancy Jun 2nd, 2012 at 12:09AM

The death penalty has no correlation with reducing crime - corporeal punishment certainly won't. Prison and punishment are not, and never have been effective deterrents. You have to affect cultural and economic change to reduce crime rates.

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Posted by Alphe92 Jun 1st, 2012 at 1:07PM

I can't understand why prisons are holiday camps. Will we have so much crime if prisoners had to sleep on cold floors with sawdust, use the corner as a toilet, and have to rely on family bringing them food?
Civilising prisons did not work. Why should anyone who steps from society's laws and become 'outlaw' have any rights at all?
Either this, or simply indenture them to their victims' or victims' families for a certain time to earn monies for them, with the penalty for not doing this being capital?

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Reply by ChipmunkErnie Jun 1st, 2012 at 1:30PM

How much time have you spent in prison? And if you have, do you want to go back to have a nice vacation?
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Reply by Alphe92 Jun 1st, 2012 at 1:36PM

None! I take being a citizen seriously, and I think the law is our only safeguard in society. Either obey the law, vote to have a voice to change, or be American and buy a gun, be neurotic and die confused.
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Posted by bosgek Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:54PM

Against it, the society (or state) can remove a criminal from the group, but it goes to far when they own your body. I agree that jails aren't the best solution, forced labour or community service would be better.

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Posted by lwej6 Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:42PM

i think its up to the person whos doing it i have 4 boys and some times there was a time that they needed a good butt kicking

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Posted by Ketsan Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:40PM

It's better than the child figuring out that being told no doesn't actually stop them doing what they want.

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Reply by Durion23 Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:42PM

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of lashing instead of jailtime for adults.
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Reply by Ketsan Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:44PM

Oh well then use a bigger stick.
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Posted by Hatenthusiast Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:37PM

Against it. There is no reason that a "Civilized" society should practice it.

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Reply by Durion23 Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:40PM

Is it less civilized than trapping people in a place surrounded by other criminals?
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Posted by ChipmunkErnie Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:37PM

Much more effective than incorporeal punishment. On the other hand, I'm against corporal punishment in most cases, and definitely against it in schools, etc.

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Reply by GalaxyCrimsonStar Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:57PM

It's an emotional issue, that's for sure. We used to get hit at school by teachers. 90% of the time we deserved it. If we went home and complained, we usually got in trouble again. I'm not sure we're better off by removing cororal punishment from schools. Now I've heard NCO's no longer strike recruits in basic training. If that's so, my initial reaction is.. Whaaaaaaaaaat??!!???
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Reply by ChipmunkErnie Jun 1st, 2012 at 1:02PM

Military training is a bit different. But I do think we've gone overboard in the schools in the sense that now making a child write out an assignment because they behaved badly is consider corporal punishment.
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