It's Not Abuse If It Doesn't Bruise

You want to know who had the right way of doing things?

The Spartans- not that Gerard Butler homoerotic bullshit that I watch repeatedly wishing I will one day cloud my vision with the blood of an infidel ($30,000 signing bonus!) - the ones who beat their kids for not stealing "properly"; the ones who declared war on the Helots every year just so it wasn't illegal to kill one of them; the ones who were both property of the state and a freeman in the state. The Saprtans knew what was up.

The question I indirectly pose to you (that is a singular "you" b-t-dub.) is why we are not Spartans. Not to imply that there are two opinions on this. I am going to tell you what to think.

Among a number of different reasons we are not Spartans



1- We do not currently beat our children in the proper manner

2- We cannot spill someone's blood without getting in trouble for it (hooligan mickey cops)

3- We are not greek (this being the most complicated section- I know... and yes you are overanalyzing it- will require a new post) (read: needs more time to shit on his right to free speech with some malarky dung heap that makes a cynical, satirical and vaguely pretentious point and in the end illuminates an issue but does nothing to solve the problem.)



exhac: Child beating, or "loving" as my father called it.

DO it RIGHT.

I think every child should get the living shit kicked out of him at least once a year. The Spartans used this to technique to teach the kids who was in charge. It worked. It still does. Try it.
Today, the authorities on raising (mollified, semi-sedated, peices of shit, growing to provide no societal benefit) children tell us positive reinforcement is the way to go. We should reprimand, tell of our disappointment, and if the crime is most severe in circumstance ground them. This is a fallacy.

The kids who are coming into the high schools today are the first yearlings raised under this technique (or lack thereof). They are rude, lack social skills, are obstinate, and generally less apt. Abilities of groups of humans are not supposed to decline over time- we are disproving evolution with our parental techniques.

These kids are insolent without reason: My main cause to kick the shit out of my future kids.

When we got beat, we went inside ourselves, determined why this was wrong, if we deserved it, and on what accounts. Grounding cannot force a kid to completely reorganize his world view like a sea salt on a switch's wound, or elctrodes on the nipples, or standing outside all night. Beatings made us plot for ourselves and what we wanted in life. We never relied on other's- they might kick our asses. What is this?? It's sedition. It's revolutionary.

When we got the living crap kicked out of us at school and the teachers looked away (or in my case, told me to stop talking shit like a damn Irish would... with boys in the upper grades). We went to our friends and held organized wars across neighborhoods and playgrounds- politics and leadership and friends were solidified. You knew who had your back when a friend took a stick to the chest so you wouldn't have a bloody mess across the back of your head. You then had the pleasure to tag team the little shit who attacked you from behind and beat his pathetic ass with the very stick he took to your bud. This is where we learned the imprtant things- in conflict with our superiors.

Now take the nearest fourth grader and shake him till he fights back-- start quarrels with seventh grade boys and just gang up on freshman. Don't pick on the weak ones. The strong ones are the kids who haven't learned these lessons.

When you don't force a kid to decide what switch he's going to take you deprive him of any self-reliance and revolution and ability to be a man as I determine it. (There is not room for two opinions here.)

Force your kids to do their shit right. They will steal ice cream at night and not get caught. They will forge your signature on a test. They will learn that they can't, in fact, drink a fifth of whiskey in an hour and a half (unless he or she is of my family's seed; in which case they will be so incredulous as to the fact they just accomplished the deed they will consider never drinking again). They will sneak out and take the car to some slut's house. They will paint then bitch's yard red when she bangs their friend. They will do it all.

And you'll beat their ass raw.