Discipline
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There is one thing that it is very easy to see when it is missing from people, especially children. You would think that by now people would have figured out that it is necessary, you could even call it a necessary evil. Perhaps one of the big problems with it is that the people, parents, who should be providing it to the next generation, their kids, are often unfamiliar with it themselves. Either unfamiliar or flat out running the other direction whenever a situation shows up that might require it of them.
This complaint is not really about parents, though. It is more in line with a general discussion on being disciplined enough to take responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions. This comes up because of the several articles in the news recently of people who have had really unpleasant things occur to them through their own actions, and then, of course you have those who feel that we should pity the person who brought things upon themselves. Honestly, to a point I agree with that. But when a person’s actions intrude on freedoms of another, then I got no sympathy for them. They did, they can pay and no need to punish anyone but them. Of course, sadly, their families and friends often get punished as well because they care for these people, even though they deserve what they are getting.
Three articles I thought kind of fit together, all talk about discipline in one way or another. One goes over the actions of a school principal who has taken to using a paddle to bring discipline back to a school that badly needed it. In another place a person shot and killed one of a pair who were stealing his truck. The police are not going to press charges against him for it either; which is a good thing. The last of the three talks about a British lady who is up for execution in Laos because she was caught smuggling drugs. I have to say that every single person, from the child who gets paddled to the woman who already died to the woman who may die deserves, perhaps pity, but no sympathy.
Tags: British, discipline, drugs, execution, Laos