A few months ago I saw a movie of those "think little", a lot of action, shots, entertainment, but with a typical and shallow script. The film in question is entitled "In the spotlight" and the protagonist is, if I remember correctly, an experienced ex-soldier with a highly developed ethical and moral sense that lives badly as he can. Something like the good justice that tries to fix everything that bothers him.
All this introduction serves to explain that the video that heads this entry is a fragment of that movie in which a mother is observed hitting her son. Our protagonist, justice where there are them and without qualms when expressing what bothers him and why it bothers him, ends up applying, before the scene he observes, the same corrective to the child's mother while telling the mother: “It bothers me that parents hit their children“.
Needless to say, when I saw the scene I was stunned. "It's like House, which says what it thinks regardless of the consequences, but as a soldier," I thought. And I liked it, because the message that leaves the scene is exactly the one that tries to show: it is violent and disrespectful to slap an adult and it is equally violent and disrespectful to do so with a child.
There are things that simply are not done, and paste is one of them. Violence generates violence and it can never be right to inflict harm on someone if what you are trying to achieve is respectful and noble behavior.
Let's preach with the example
How will I tell my children that they should not hit other children if when they do something wrong I hit them? How do I explain that violence, aggressiveness and harming others is not a means to get something or solve problems if it is one of the methods with which I solve them? Do what I say, not what I do?
Please, be serious and consistent, the cheek serves only to download our contained anger and to "solve" problems "by bad".
The violence of people does not come in our genetic code (and if so, we could eliminate it with a good education), it comes from the custom of treat badly and educate by hurting (emotionally above all) to the most defenseless and innocent people in society.
