CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Sir, —An interesting paradox in the pacifist’s viewpoint is his vicarious love of violence. Those of us who were occasionally walloped (with very good reason, usually) in our youth, took this chastisement in perfectly good part as a forceful reminder not to repeat the offence. Certainly the rubbish talked nowadays about whether children can “forgive” their parents for the sin of producing them was unheard of in a saner age, and a good job, too. The human animal
has to learn to subordinate his natural egotism to the accepted laws of the ; community, and be punished if he does not. Unhealthy fulminations against the “brutality” involved in ordinary , family discipline is only a symptom of a diseased imagination.—Yours. ! etc., ! I.S.T. > March 6, 1956. t
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27911, 7 March 1956, Page 7
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