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To: stripes1776
You need to get over yourself. I'm all for ethical growed up behavior, but comes a time when you need/get to tell a 7 year old to go pee on the electic fence.

It happens once in a lifetime, if you have smart nephews. Lessons, serious life lessons are learned. And, if everybody lives through it, you can count on the kid to be much wiser.

/johnny

90 posted on 08/28/2011 10:02:00 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
You need to get over yourself. I'm all for ethical growed up behavior, but comes a time when you need/get to tell a 7 year old to go pee on the electic fence.

It is not necessary to stand in front of a car moving at 60 M.P.H. to learn that this is a bad thing to do. What you are suggesting is unethical.

It happens once in a lifetime, if you have smart nephews. Lessons, serious life lessons are learned. And, if everybody lives through it, you can count on the kid to be much wiser.

There is good pedagogy and bad pedagogy. No ethical teacher would tell a student to cut off his arm with a chain saw in order to teach him that it is painful and a stupid idea to cut off his arm with a chain saw.

93 posted on 08/28/2011 11:03:03 AM PDT by stripes1776
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