> You are exhibiting the Just World fallacy. It makes you uncomfortable to believe... so you shield yourself...
This is bulverism. You haven't presented evidence that tw04 is wrong. You've just assumed they're wrong, and presented a condescending explanation for why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
And as they said, you're not actually disagreeing with them.
So you didn't bother to read my post? Because I never once said it never happens/is universal law. I said it is the majority of the time... you know, exactly what you just said.
Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems
by maxxxxx on Sunday December 04, 2016 @09:29PM
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You were not very precise with your numbers. You say "99%", "9 out of 10" and "very rare". To a lot of people these mean "negligibly small". With dog training, child rearing and most everything else in life you increase your chances for success by a lot if you follow certain rules. But let's not look down at the people who fail. It may be their fault or it may not be their fault.
How are 99 % or 9/10 not precise numbers?
And "very rare" was a comment on "99 %", not a quantity on its own.
HN is the one place where I expect readers to interpret numbers literally.
Which is not to say that it's never the fault of the parents/owners. It probably is, the majority of the time. But to suggest that as a universal law, as you have done, is silly.