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Wed Mar-08-06 07:53 PM
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I'd like to ask how you think we should be socializing children to understand that physically assaulting others IN ANY FORM is not acceptable? Do we just shrug and laugh and let the kids who are dominant poke the others' eyes out with sharpened sticks, or do we try to teach them appropriate social behavior? Does not violating a social convention (thou shalt not lay violent hands upon others) call for punishment of some sort?
I don't think the punishment was all that harsh - sentencing a bully to mow lawns and shovel gravel seems perfectly fine to me, and teaching him that he must comply with the sentence also seems perfectly fair.
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