Isn't it stupid to think a child that tortures animals needs the belt?

[Danielle93]

I'm now keeping my distance from someone at my workplace that thinks like that. Most of us didn't agree with him.

We were discussing about a (luckily) fictitious episode about a 9 year-old boy that poison a couple pets for thrills and gets violent with classmates at school. In the end, the parents took him to a child psychiatrist and got him under his medications. The reason for the behavior was because he his brain is wired differently, he was born with less activity on the part of the area responsible for empathy. So with the correct medication and guided, even though there is no cure, he can redirect his difference in a positive way. Instead of heading towards the direction of a criminal, he can be a CEO or lawyer.

This idiotic co-worker really believed that supposedly all that child needed was the belt. I don't think so. How can the belt cure someone that's born differently? How is hitting fixing things? I find that a stupid mindset. Honestly if that was my child, I would get them help too but also wonder if someone else is abusing them. That's a child crying for help and a belt is abusing them.

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I fail to understand the logic of beating a child for hurting animals. The child is also beating other living beings... how is hitting them even logical?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I think his logic was that using corporal punishment with someone like that, much like how one trains a dog to behave, would force the idea of societal obedience rather than rehabilitation. I think that’s what your boomer coworker was thinking of, not so much the long-term for adulthood (god knows there are plenty of perfectly fine sociopaths in the world that do good even for selfish purposes) but rather just for the time in childhood.

[Danielle93]

There are definitely lots of high functioning sociopaths. A couple of them can even be found in the medicine field too.
If there is one thing corporal punishment will never be able to do is give someone empathy if they're lacking it. Honestly, all that hitting will ever do to a child like that is make him even more aggressive, whereas if he's given the right medicine and gets the help needed then it would redirect the child on a more suitable path.

[Vesuvius87]

It sure is ignorant on his part. What that child needs is professional help ASAP. I'm against corporal punishment on children.

[Intheclouds00]

Yes. They don't need the belt, they need professional help. Children who do that are probably going to continue getting worse. It doesn't usually end well.

[Anonymous]

The belt and forced to eat dog shit is what he deserves.

[Danielle93]

So just pure abuse for a child that's clearly not right in the brain, that was born directly?

[Danielle93]

Trying not hitting by hitting seems idiotic to me.

[Opinion Owner]

This isn't just a little shit throwing a temper tantrum and hitting the dog. He poisoned the animal. Nah. The kid is a lost cause. Throw the whole kid away. You would agree if he grew up and murdered one of your loved ones.

[Danielle93]

and that's why such child needs immediate psychiatric intervention. If he was born with the brains of a psychopath (chemical inbalance), then where there is obviously no cure, don't you think his energy can be redirected into a more suitable path? If he grew up, with an early intervention instead of a criminal, he can take advantage to become a CEO, a police officer, laywer (a career that requires being an authority figure) or even a surgeon. There are several high functioning sociopath and psychopaths that don't kill.

[Danielle93]

so basically while nope, he can't be cured... he can still be redirected.

[Opinion Owner]

I 1000% believe he will grow up to rape/kill someone one day.

[Opinion Owner]

And I'm aware that not all psychopaths kill people. But not all psychopaths are poisoning animals at the age of 9 either