vile!

I think this is incredibly vile... hot sauce as discipline

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[Jo]

Oh my god. "Receiving pain from the hand of love?" That's sick.

[badgerbag]

I know - and as if one must damage and hurt their mouths because they used their mouth? If they wet the bed or something, what then- hot sauce "down there"?

How about some electric shocks! They don't cause much damage either.

Hitting your kid is sick enough without thinking of new, more invisible ways of nastiness.

[Prentiss Riddle]

"Those who regularly use the punishment say it teaches their charges valuable and long-lasting lessons." Uh -- like learning to hate Mexican food?

[Prentiss Riddle]

Although personally I've got a contrarian idea that for actual *crimes*, the kind of stuff we now try to deter with prisons, maybe corporal punishment would be more humane than locking people in cages and encouraging them to brutalize each other for years on end. (Must be all that pre-adolescent Heinlein bubbling to the surface.)

Actually, I'm pretty sure it couldn't be less humane than the present system, but would it be more effective? Would your average sociopathic violent criminal show off his scars from the lash as trophies? Probably. Sigh.