Live data from Hacker News

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

theguardian.com

711–713 of 713 posts

Re: Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

#711

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I can't really think of examples. Mind you that might be biased because people do often have an intuition for when they'd either get their ass handed to them or it would otherwise backfire so I assume there'd be some examples otherwise if they didn't take that into account. Also these examples were mostly from incidents where the bullying got physical anyway. Much of it isn't and making it physical even as th…

Right so without examples your evidence actually lends credence to my point. 3/3 times is a 100 percent rate of the bully backing down. That is the logical and rational analysis. Obviously your personal conclusion is different but I would say it’s not an empirical or strictly logical analytical conclusion. You will also note that I was able to guess and predict where you’re coming from. Not only did I ask for the ful…

>Obviously your personal conclusion is different but I would say it’s not an empirical or strictly logical analytical conclusion. You will also note that I was able to guess and predict where you’re coming from. Not only did I ask for the full metric, I asked for it partly because I can predict it would be 3 out of 3. My response to the other persons reply predicted what was going on in your head quite accurately. Because of this I would say that I have knowledge about this context that you don’t know about it and that you can learn from. It’s natural for you to you to fight for your point but that would be a form of bias.

Sorry but this reads like some pompous peak redditor stuff. I'd say it would be a bad look if you're trying to convince someone or transfer and idea but the other person you agreed with wasn't right about the supposed cases nor did you draw some point we disagree on or draw out some conclusion.

>From a practical standpoint you only need to go a fraction of that distance in order to cause most bullies to back down.

Yes because for most bullies it's social posturing. The whole group dynamic doesn't often make sense if there's expected resistance. Even if the victim can be beat, few bullies feel like getting into a tussle over it let alone repeatedly. Exceptions can be notable of course and probalby bullies trend towards those escalation exceptions a bit more than others.

Re: Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

#712

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You basically didn't address anything I wrote - this is one of the most worthless comments I've written in a while. I will reiterate. If you, or others, want to hit children then that's something you need to justify with cold hard studies. Not me. The default is not hitting people. Acknowledge the reality: if I do these punishments to another adult man, I will: 1. Probably get my ass handed to me. 2. Go to jail and b…

The default is hitting people. We are afforded the not hitting people personally because law enforcement and therefore hitting people is delegated to the government. Government doesn't do much law enforcement when it comes to children behavior.

We live in a civilized society, the default is not hitting people and you won't convince me otherwise. Again, I don't want to hear some pussy-footing bullshit, so if that's all you have then stop commenting.

Re: Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

#713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The default is hitting people. We are afforded the not hitting people personally because law enforcement and therefore hitting people is delegated to the government. Government doesn't do much law enforcement when it comes to children behavior.

We live in a civilized society, the default is not hitting people and you won't convince me otherwise. Again, I don't want to hear some pussy-footing bullshit, so if that's all you have then stop commenting.

> stop commenting

I will do that, because as you stated yourself you are planning to ignore arguments you don't like:

> you won't convince me otherwise

Post reply on HN