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I appreciate that many people don't like guns. I don't like them either on a personal aesthetic level, I associate them with violent, aggressive, controlling behaviour and the types of people that act this way. Having said that, there are some points here I feel are important: Firstly, the...

Absolutely incorrect. No individual, including those collectively calling themselves the government, is justified in coercive agression against another unless acting in self-defense. The axiom makes no mention of vague notions such as the 'social good'.

Way to ensure that no one takes you seriously ever again (assuming there were some that did previously). Whites only? It's so telling how people revert to using absolutely ridiculous strawmen when attempting to take down libertarians/ancaps.

Hahaha, as if that means shit to anyone here.

How to win an argument: 1. Focus on unrelated, extreme hypotheticals from other discussions. 2. Type in CAPS every so often for added credibility. 3. Call those who disagree with you retards, then end by telling them to fuck off as confirmation of how correct you are. Did a bunch of...

NOTHING. Consistent opposition to any form of violence with the exception of self-defense, is an absolutely sound ethical position. And your explanation for why it isn't consistent makes NO sense.

On topic, you never answered my last reply about the purpose of smacking.

You mean you want me to refer to specifics like falling in line to sign anti-drug petitions?

Like fur and fascism.

In the case that they are able to learn at some level. An adult with Down's Syndrome, for example.

You're a vile bunch of corpses.

Forcing them to sit through a Young Liberal meeting.

If the justification for physically punishing children is a lack of reasoning ability, should severely retarded people also be reprimanded in the same way? What about demented old people?

When so many of the opposing arguments are of this mould, it's hard not to feel a sense of reassurance that your view is the correct one.

You're going to need to be more specific. What about physical punishment is doing this, that doesn't "shame them/make them sad/make them afraid"?

What exactly are they trying to do then?

Generalisation and ad hominem! But of course it's the other side that doesn't have an argument. Good troll! You do humour well! Feel free to make some actual points whenever hey.

Seriously.

Because that isn't my argument. It is often detrimental to a child's mental health to be physically punished, and very rarely is it beneficial.

Okay.