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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
This view of child-rearing is unfortunately still very prevalent in the US, Mephisto. It might not be the 'majority' view anymore but it's still quite common. The readiness to use raw force in basic family life might have something to do with the over-use of raw force in our international policies, too.

I totally reject that analogy. Spanking a child for disciplinary purpose is a whole world from invading a (not your child even) country for whatever reasons. If so, N Korea and Iran would have been hit a long time ago, instead of Iraq.

We should look for reasons outside of the Freudian world, which is totally ambiguous with its use of extrapolation out of (in this case) a completely unrelated historical incident(s).

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