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Originally Posted by GermanStar
You can't draw a rational analogy between the behavior of adults and children. Were you ever a child? Did you go to school? With other kids? I did -- in Chicago. Freshman year in HS, a kid blew up a teacher's car in the parking lot. Don't talk to me about rubber bands...
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Sure I was a child. I went to school in a different place. In Singapore, if I had yelled at my teacher, in my time, I would have a red imprint of their palm on my face. Ask me how I know and how long it takes to go away. Disagreements, yes. Rudeness or disrespect, NO.
I shot a rubber band at my teacher too. I got spanked by him, the principal in a public assembly on a stage in front of the school and by a stroke of luck, my parents weren't informed.
If the school and parents could have disciplined their kids BEFORE it escalated to car explosions, would it have led to that? Restitution had to be made and me and someone had to be punished in grade school for scratching an instructor's car. Maybe that was why I never blew it up. Because of the fear of what might happen if I did