Re:Why Punish?
by ipaddr on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:04PM
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This is such a micro example but is having a 5 year old cry more desired than throwing the toy back? Needing some higher power when through age/ability the child could handle the situation themselves? Does this create a person at 25 who needs some external party to settle disputes and does this become a situation where this child learns to twist people into tools by playing on emotional responses?
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Re:Why Punish?
by jimkleiber on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:13PM
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Possibly, I suppose it depends on how the parents react to the cry. Bottling up the tears can also teach the 25 year old to numb themselves with alcohol or drugs, or feeling abandoned by the parents could lead to massive distrust, so I don't know if any of them necessarily lead to one outcome or another.