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Originally Posted by krisk
I often wonder what would happen if we brought back something like the Stocks and public humiliation and disgrace
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That only works if the person is actually humiliated by it. Remember the opening of the Spenser Tracey movie 'NorthWest Passage?' Walter Brennan was in the stocks because of treasonous speech, but his friends were bringing him pitchers of beer! Today's kids would see it as a prize rather than a punishment. Look at the 'gansta clothes' so fashionable today, or the status that young gang members achieve when able to say 'I done time.'
As much as I don't like it, I have to agree with the idea of corporal punishment, but there damn well better be some very rigid standards used for its application. I know that if a teacher ever hit me when I was a high-school student, I would have spent the rest of my teen years devising (and carrying out) ways to repay him. Let the punishment fit the crime. As it was, marbles inside the hubcaps of my French teacher in junior high was all I ever needed to resort to!
(Mr. Lederer, if you are reading this... YOU DESERVED IT!)
Stitchawl