[sakic]

The "slaves" were not the sort of slaves that Americans once kidnapped from Africa. A better translation would be "bond servatns". After 7 years they were supposed to be let go, unless they decided they wanted to stay with their master for life. There are a lot of people out there today who are too plain stupid to successfully navigate the modern world on their own. They would be better off if they attached themselves to some well to do person and became their household bond servant.

So if your child was a "bond servant" it would be just fine. I notice that you failed to address that "God" said it was okay to beat your "bond servants". If your child was a bond servant it must be encouraging to your child that it would be okay with you for your kid to be beaten by his master.

[Ahban]

Do you beleive that schools should be allowed to give corporal punsihment?

What about caning of delinquint youths by the government such as is practiced in Hong Long?