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Physically confining or constraining is not the same thing as using deliberate infliction of pain as a punishment.
> No matter what flowery language or loopy logic you use to avoid the subject, you are applying force.
Force is not the issue.
> But don't pretend that living in the world requires no discipline at all.
Discipline is a third distinct (but overlapping) category from physical constraint and pain-as-punishment.
Confusing the three different issues is not helpful.
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Physically confining or constraining is not the same thing as using deliberate infliction of pain as a punishment.
> No matter what flowery language or loopy logic you use to avoid the subject, you are applying force.
Force is not the issue.
> But don't pretend that living in the world requires no discipline at all.
Discipline is a third distinct (but overlapping) category from physical constraint and pain-as-punishment.
Confusing the three different issues is not helpful.