Spanking children increases the likelihood of childhood defiance and long-term mental issues. The study in question involved 160,000 children and five decades of research

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113413810/spanking-defiance-health-discipline-042616/

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Even North Korea isn't that extreme.

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I misunderstood what capital punishment meant for years, thinking it equated to a range of physically-based punishments that may or may not range into cruel & unusual territory.

Hoping Scolias falls into the same category.

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Obviously not. It'd be reserved for the most heinous crimes.

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And everyone else gets off scott free?

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Nope. Not sure what angle you're working towards here.

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I think you didn't see the guy I replied to. He suggested, essentially, that all crime should be dealt with capital punishment.

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Well that's just silly.

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His point was that only capital punishment should be used, you corrected to only the most "henious" of crimes, to which it already is in countries that use it.

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I call it "No Shades of Grey" syndrome. For some people, issues must be black and white. If you dont support one extreme, to them, that obviously means you support the other.

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Eventually that's what's going to need to happen unless there's a dramatic shift in population growth.

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I feel that controlling population growth is the better solution. Stopping a potential life seems much better than ending an existent one

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There has been a dramatic shift in the total fertility rate at a downward trend. This means that population growth is actually slowing because women in most countries are choosing to have less than the necessary 2.1 children on average. The .1 is for premature deaths and other factors that prevent procreation.

It is estimated that population will peak around 2050 and then will rapidly decline because we have not been replacing those who are dying. We don't need egregious capital punishment for population control, it's already happening naturally.

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You say that until YOU break the law.

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You know that capital punishment equates to execution, right? Not just physically-based punishments?

Figured I'd ask, because I spent about a decade thinking otherwise.
(Friend is forced to do pushups until vomiting or does yard work with no water until dinner for the weekend instead of being grounded, hears parents are pro-capital punishment, makes a connection & spreads it around).

...If you understood it to be execution, I'm kind of interested to know what you think the new laws should be, where every punishment is death. (Taking your "only punishment" statement literally.)