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----- Original Message -----
From: Valerie <valeries@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:27 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] re: spanking, etc

I'm sorry that people have been so abused
> that any kind of spanking constitutes violence to them.

I was NEVER abused and I feel that any kind of hitting is violent. Blanket
statements can be hurtful.

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In a message dated 9/4/00 2:25:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
valeries@... writes:

<< I'm sorry that people have been so abused
that any kind of spanking constitutes violence to them. >>
spanking/hitting is the same action....maybe with different intent.....

Julie

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<< << I'm sorry that people have been so abused
that any kind of spanking constitutes violence to them. >> >>

It is a mistake to assume that those who consider spanking to be violent were
abused. This would imply that those who hold this convection have had their
judgment impaied somehow. I was not abused, had wonderful parents and was
raised in a healthy and functional household. I consider spanking to be an
act of violence and domination. I do not come to this conclusion because I
am unable to reason coherently due to abuse in my childhood.

Kris