Try writing a column about corporal punishment on the morning of the senseless slaying of an upstanding and outstanding citizen, and see how it turns out. See how quickly your thoughts against corporal punishment by family or state come to naught, while you fumble with theories of personally hunting down and executing these murderers or living to see them brought to justice and fitting punishment.Hear yourself talk to yourself about how we're losing control of our children and therefore our society, and see if you too, don't want to find these casks of senselessness and empty some good blows on their backsides long before they have had their day in court.
You begin to question the upbringing of these perpetrators of what is a merciless killing. And in the debate about the psychological ills of spanking, you're asking "were these criminals among those who were beaten by parents/guardians or those who did not get sufficient licks?"Do these fellas with guns and an order to kill have families–a mother, a father, a sister, a brother? Is there an aunt about the age of Dana Seetahal, SC, whom they love; like even? One who may have helped in "nurturing" them in the formative years?What signifiers of right and wrong could be found in their upbringing, from which we can summon some sensibility? Or are they just savage animals and cowards participating aimlessly in life as a matter they do not understand, respect or appreciate?Just how does one arrive over to the abyss-mal to have such a role in life–without restraint, sensitivity, humanness, and erring on the side of the dastardly wrong? When in their life, doctrine, and discipline did they decide to become unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct?
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