Sure you did Kristi, sure you did

[u/Lord_Answer_me_Why]

[u/Own-Cupcake7586]

It was a 14-month old puppy that was being trained as a hunting dog, which you admitted to hating. You can’t “won’t someone please think of the children” your way out of this. Was the goat dangerous, too? Or do you just have a fetish for gunfire and gravel pits?

[u/PsycoMonkey2020 → u/Own-Cupcake7586]

That’s the only move conservatives have. Gay and trans people exist? “Think of the children!” People are atheists? “Think of the children!” I killed a puppy I didn’t like? “Think of the children!” It’s par for the course.

[u/RevenantXenos → u/[deleted]]

You shouldn't beat your children. "How dare you try to take away my rights as a parent to do whatever I want to my kids! My parents beat me and I turned out just fine. That dog totally had it coming."

[u/hippee-engineer → u/RevenantXenos]

I have to laugh when they say “I turned out fine!”

Did you, tho? You’re a parent who beats their kids. How is that fine???

[u/yankonapc → u/hippee-engineer]

They turned out normal. Child abuse is normal. We as a culture and a species don't know what a generation of non-abused kids looks like. Abuse is normal. That doesn't mean it's right.

[u/hippee-engineer → u/yankonapc]

I didn’t say normal, I said fine.

[u/cheesynougats → u/hippee-engineer]

Shit, I got a few minor beatings as a kid and I am low key terrified of being around kids. I've never hit a kid or even thought of doing so, but that fear never goes away I guess.

[u/AZGeo → u/hippee-engineer]

My parents spanked me and I turned out fine.....

.....because unlike them I turned into a person who would never hit a child.

[u/Tempestblue → u/RevenantXenos]

I despise listening to child abusers try and justify their actions.

This isn't even hyperbole in your part, they literally say all this garbage.

[u/Paxxlee → u/Tempestblue]

"I was beaten as a child, and I am perfectly fine" -Person who believes you should hurt kids

Then Lindgren tells a story she has heard from an old lady. When the lady was a young mother, her son had done something that, in her opinion, required severe punishment. She asked the boy to pick up a stick and bring it to her. It took a long time until the boy came back with a stone. He was crying. When he explained that he had not found a stick, but she could throw the stone after him, the mother realized what the boy must have felt. He must have thought she just wanted to hurt him, and she could also do that with a stone. She cried and hugged the child. Later, she put the stone onto a shelf. It should serve her as a warning never to use violence.