[lit-ideas] Re: Irene/Andy's scenario and a challenge back to her
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:28:00 -0500
If children had the ability to make fine distinctions like that, they
wouldn't be children. Even adults don't think that clearly. Give me a
break.
> [Original Message]
> From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/17/2006 10:22:26 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Irene/Andy's scenario and a challenge back to her
>
> One last comment: Have you ever considered how logically spurious it
> is to appeal to degrees of difference and then paint the parent-child
> spanking encounter has having (you seem so absolutely sure) only one
> possible meaning? Have you ever considered the possibility that when
> the child says, "I am a jerk, that's why they are hitting me" that the
> only correction needed is "I'm behaving like a jerk, that's why
> they're hitting me," a valuable learning experience.
>
> Obession with an idee-fixe is not, IMHO, rhetorically very effective.
>
>
>
> John McCreery
> The Word Works, Ltd.
> 55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku
> Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN
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