This happened to me on a few occasions as a child. I'm not convinced it was a bad thing. Not every potential harmful action should be avoided at all times.
For example, lets say a child eats poison. If you instill the fear of God in them for it, (with explanation) they are much less likely to eat that poison ever. Sure, it's a little PTSDish, but the memory is forever ingrained, and the child is forever safe from not only that poison, but ever wary of any poison.
Something being harmful does not equal something being evil. The entire purpose of pain from a biological perspective is teach us to not do something. Us using that system in a nondestructive manner to teach seems logical.
You see someone beating up a child. I see someone at least potentially teaching (details of the event unknown). At the least, no permanent damage is done, at least physically. And it is very likely that whatever event caused the punishment is unlikely to be repeated, which is the intent (presumably). I can't see into the hearts of the people doing the act, but the act itself is not necessarily evil. You believing that it must be evil doesn't make it so. It is only a statement of your personal moral code.
The parent is obviously ok with it. Are you trying to tell the parent what is appropriate with their child? Let them do them, you do you. That is the entire purpose of what we are fighting for; to not have people dictate the terms of our life choices (as long as those choices aren't a direct violation of someone else's rights).
This happened to me on a few occasions as a child. I'm not convinced it was a bad thing. Not every potential harmful action should be avoided at all times.
For example, lets say a child eats poison. If you instill the fear of God in them for it, (with explanation) they are much less likely to eat that poison ever. Sure, it's a little PTSDish, but the memory is forever ingrained, and the child is forever safe from not only that poison, but ever wary of any poison.
Something being harmful does not equal something being evil. The entire purpose of pain from a biological perspective is teach us to not do something. Us using that system in a nondestructive manner to teach seems logical.
You see someone beating up a child. I see someone at least potentially teaching (details of the event unknown). At the least, no permanent damage is done, at least physically. And it is very likely that whatever event caused the punishment is unlikely to be repeated, which is the intent (presumably). I can't see into the hearts of the people doing the act, but the act itself is not necessarily evil. You believing that it must be evil doesn't make it so. It is only a statement of your personal moral code.
The parent is obviously ok with it. Are you trying to tell the parent what is appropriate with their child? Let them do them, you do you. That is the entire purpose of what we are fighting for; to not have people dictate the terms of our life choices (as long as those choices aren't a direct violation of someone else's rights).
sounds like you weren't alive during the good years-50's and 60's