Was an interesting "lecture", by an instructor in "History and Moral Ethics", prerequisite to get the job being an ex serviceman.
Was explaining the failure of western civilisation at the end of the 20th century, gangs in the streets and parks, innocents being mugged raped and killed...to the horror of the children learning, in an environment where corporal punishment was delivered as and when required, but was generally not necessary.
Used a puppy training analogy...
Puppy soils, you rub it's nose, growl, and spank (if you catch it in the act), the violence isn't out of anger, it's a delivery tool, utilising our oldest instinct, self preservation in the face of pain to instill the "norms" of the puppies world.
He posed an alternative training mechanism to the class.
"Reason" with the puppy, warn the puppy, scowl/growl at it, take away its liberty by occasionally locking it up in another room, or with other soiling puppies, and when it matures into an adult dog through arbitrary definition of adult, if it's still soiling, take it out the back and shoot it.
Then explained that this is late 20th century model, expecting "adults" to know that which isn't innate to humans, then death penalty for behaviour which has been more or less tolerated as they've learned and grown.
Quote:
I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fai
