Cruelty is NOT discipline.

Aransas judge beats daughter with belt.

IMO, this is not discipline. This man completely lost his shit.

For those that say, "I was beaten, I turned out ok." I say, loudly and proudly, "fuck you". Not everyone turns out OK.

I remember being a kid and there was one cousin who was a constant instigator. Any defending of myself was construed as "fighting". The punishment for said fighting?

Being forced to go into the middle of the street, in broad daylight, with neighbors on their porches and kiss her bare ass.

Non-compliance was met with physical beatings until I did comply. Right there, in the street, with people watching.

I was never so humiliated, dehumanized or disgusted in my life as in those moments.

It didn't make me want to follow orders because I respected my mother. I hated the crazy, sadistic bitch.

I complied out of fear. Fear of the ever more cruel, humiliating punishments she could devise.

If I hadn't been so numb to that type of shit, might have been better equipped to see a sociopath when he came across my path? Would I have been able to see things in his behavior that were warning signs, but because I was numb to abuse I thought he was normal?

Seriously, this kind of shit is not acceptable. It wasn't acceptable then and it sure as shit isn't acceptable now and motherfuck you if you think it is. 

And I wonder...How many of those advocating this type of reaction to a child's misbehavior would inflict this upon their s-type for a similar offense? How many s-types would take that kind of out of control beating and NOT scream abuse?

Food for thought.