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I don't think the pitbulls are the problem. They are a difficult breed that requires experienced owners, responsible breeding and proper training, not being exterminated because they're seen as fighting dogs and abused/not trained properly. Do we exterminate maltesers for being most likely to...

In your opinion.

Also a very good one - the banana. You can bring up the fact it was selectively bred to look like what it looks like now - and then extensively cloned, leaving it open to disease.

Oh lol, because religion has a lot of rational things to say about the scientific method and scientific definitions, right? YOUR CHURCH HAS NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT IT IS TALKING ABOUT REGARDING EVOLUTION. For fuck's sake, you still think that "theory" means "hunch". Try letting that fly with any...

Because that's totally rational! Yes indeed! "I don't understand what the word theory means in science, even though I am doing a science degree! Yet I must be right because the people who know better who are telling me I'm wrong are only atheists!" You are a disgrace to the profession.

Uh, no. Scientifically, she is correct, and that has nothing to do with atheism. Don't like it? Too bad. Stop doing a science degree.

Agreed. Physical punishment should NEVER be used out of anger on a child. Only once was I ever physically disciplined out of anger - my mother slapped me when I badmouthed her to her face when I was 16. I would not call that abuse, however - that's just punishment and I deserved it.

This too is my perspective on disciplinary parenting. I would generally not resort to it in most circumstances, but I do not discount smacking as an effective disciplinary tool.

I think manipulative punishments (i.e. "if you keep doing this no TV for a week") miss the point and more often than not, tend to fail :p Time-out punishments less so.

My explanation for the use of physical correction in circumstances that are not dangerous etc are that children often aren't physically capable of the reasoning required to associate a verbal punishment as a consequence for a behaviour. "That is bad, don't do it" often is irrelevant to a child...

I would like to caveat my statement. I don't think that smacking should just be used in DIRE STRAIGHTS LIFE OR DEATH SITUATIONS though it is indeed appropriate there. Smacking should only ever have to be used rarely; as such it was only rarely used on us. However, I think smacking can be a...

You're welcome to say "I don't THINK it does any psychological damage" without backing it up. However, saying "it categorically does not cause any psychological damage" does indeed require a citation to that effect.

Yeah, and slapping your child on the face is what I would call unnecessary force. Smacking a child's hand if they were, say, reaching for a sharp object is however justified.

Before this goes any further, I would like everyone who has made any fiat accompli assertions - on either side - to back up those assertions with citations. You say smacking causes long-term psychological damage? Prove it. You say it doesn't? Prove it. Etc. Carry on.

You're conflating smacking with physical abuse. Let's make a distinction here. Slapping/striking your child on the face with any kind of force? Hitting anywhere hard enough to leave a mark/bruise? That's abuse. Smacking a child open-handedly on their well-padded bottom, preferably with...

Actually, yeah, she is right.

Mohammad was betrothed to Aisha when she was six or seven, and the marriage was consummated when she was nine. Nine.

You believe it's okay for a man to beat up his wife or rape her. You believe it's okay to marry children? You believe it's okay to stone someone for adultery?

If you think throwing around arbitrary literary references you learned about in high school is going to make you sound smarter, think again.

You believe that it is okay for women to be beaten up by their husbands for the sake of their religion. Me questioning that is not violating your "right to free speech/beliefs", darling. It's questioning your belief in suppressing the rights of others, I.e. those poor beaten -up and raped women.