Posted on 02/15/2018 12:42:39 PM PST by fruser1
This is silly.
I hear that the Koreans are even tougher. If you screw up at work or at school your boss or teacher will punch you.
My fratmate from university teaches English in Hokkaido & He’s seen it. (some) Teachers beat the sh*t out of students if they get out line. The parents whine about it but cant do as thing about because most gakuen (high school) principals are hard asses unlike the pc-run schools in America.
Japan has an almost minuscule crime rate across the board when compared to any other industrialized country.
uh...no...its the ‘no consequences’ mentality is “silly”.
Allowing GOD back into schools would also be a huge help.
Since He was banned, Satan has filled the void.
I was stationed in Korea in the mid-90s. Due to my position I had a lot more interaction with the ROK Army and KNP than most US soldiers. I remember seeing junior ROK officers enforce discipline with a steel rod...not an outright beating mind you, but a good, motivational swat with it from time to time.
Kids are mostly raised with no spanky and parentless. Seems we are just now seeing the fruits of this, decades of increasingly career mommies and hands-off alpha dads. Blech.
In Vietnam I saw a ROK junior officer or NCO give some ROK troops the same treatment. They were standing at attention and he went down the line smacking each one on the chest.
You think beating this kid would have helped this situation?
I would argue, that it’s 99% because their society is 99% Japanese.
The punishment for his crime was a public flogging.
His father insisted on having it carried out on national television.
Damn right, you can't compare crime statistics in different countries. LOL.
You cannot have a society where someone can post YouTube videos of himself torturing animals with impunity -- and then treat him as a responsible, law-abiding adult simply because his juvenile records are sealed and his medical records are confidential.
Keep in mind that these "random" mass-casualty events are rarely seen outside modern industrial countries. The reason for this is simple. Primitive and aboriginal cultures don't have any room for @ssholes who give every indication that they are going to be depraved, disruptive members of the society. If this kid had living with the Sioux tribe 150 years ago, he probably would have been burned at a stake or fed to wolves the first time he tortured an animal in the encampment.
Good dad. Good country for allowing good parenting.
So, you don’ know the difference between “corporal punishment” and “beating”?
Are you at all aware of the concept that awareness of consequences is often a deterrent in itself?
Turkish mil just kill the offender - watch them beat a low ranking guy with pail filled with cement until his head split open.
Actually if it’s the one I am thinking of, the kid was a spoiled American and his daddy was a US corporate exec in Singapore. He was “keying” cars. If I remember this right he got the whacks but not the full number required for that vandalism crime. These weren’t “love taps”, they were administer by a trained guy.
No — it was a different incident. The one I’m thinking about was definitely a local citizen of Singapore in a well-connected political family.
Why not allow fist-fighting between aggressive students like the NHL? It releases a lot of the bottled-up tension...[/sarc]
Ok
For the American there was an attempt to put pressure on the Singapore government not to implement the punishment.
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