Dec 04, 2018#1
what would happen if a person refused corporal punishment
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Dec 04, 2018#2
there would be another valiant member of the resistance
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Dec 05, 2018#3
jon666 wrote:
what would happen if a person refused corporal punishment
Hello jon666,
Looks like you’re been registered for a while but this is your first post here. If this is so welcome.
I’m not sure if you are asking about school corporal punishment of the past or something else. In the past most youngsters just accept that schools used CP and just accepted it. If any had refused to take it parents would probably have been involved or if it was intended to be punishment for a particularly serious reason expulsion might have been the alternative. It is extremely unlikely but perhaps not totally unheard of for a youngster to have been held in place for it.
To accept school CP was seen as quite normal in my schooldays; 50s/60s. To have refused it would have been seen as cowardice by others in the school. In the past many had grown up with spankings from parents at home and just saw school CP as an extension of this.
Not knowing anything of your age, experiences and where you grew up I can’t offer anything further.
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Dec 05, 2018#4
i’ve always found it strange that in the uk refusal would have been seen as cowardice, compliance always seemed like the cowardly act to me and refusal the act of bravery. i grew up the the 70s and 80s in the united states and it was always the rebels who i saw to the the heroes, those who stood up to those in power, and those who allowed the authority figures to do what they willed were little better than slaves and toadies worthy only of pity or contempt.
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Dec 05, 2018#5
dane think that is a bit of an unjust analysis I was at school in those times and it was more the case we where brought up too respect teachers and if you crossed them and need punished so be it no cowardice was involved if you did the crime you took the punishment of course there would of been the odd exception too the rule I grant you that who would not been beaten lying down but in there case did they make it worse for themselves with there defiance
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Dec 06, 2018#6
that is why the resistance is courageous and submission is cowardice. when you summit you do it not because you believe you deserve what is being done to you but because you fear it will be worse if you resist, it takes true bravery to say no to being beaten and sexually assaulted if you know it won’t make things easier for you but harder. standing up to evil is always hard, it is always easier to take the slaves path and just acquiesce… be it sexual abuse from priests or physical abuse from teachers, injustice from the police
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Dec 06, 2018#7
dane I agree any corporal punishment should never involve a sexual pleasure far as kids go if you are punishing a child with sexual pleasure in mind that is wrong in every way and resistance in that case should be so by the child concerned being punished
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Dec 09, 2018#8
Never even thought about refusing to bend over for punishment,when i was a boy you learnt to respect your parents and people in authority like policemen and teachers and as far as i can recall the punishments i received were justly deserved,i knew the rules and the consequences of not sticking to them was a sore backside.
I remember receiving six strokes of the cane from my housemaster after being caught smoking,this was reinforced by dads slipper when i got home,it certainly stopped me from smoking as that was my first and last cigarette,i,m glad i was caught out, obviously not at the time as both whackings hurt like hell,i,m now in my early sixties and fit as a fiddle so thanks dad thanks sir
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Dec 09, 2018#9
i find that so strange. i can understand deciding that submitting was better than the cost of resisting, but i can’t understand not even considering it. i respect many people, my parents and most of my teachers as a child included, but that respect would never lead me to blind unthinking submission. i can respect individuals for their wisdom and experience, but i don’t understand respect for authority as an abstraction, i see authority as inherently tainted with violence and coercion, perhaps a necessary evil but an evil never the last which must always be viewed with suspicion and only granted the absolute minimum of power it can be.
