See my clarification here (http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/1640141.html?thread=10046669#t10046669). I was possibly jumping to conclusions.
My point was that it would be wrong for me to *punish* the hitter; I was imagining a situation where he only did it once and I then sent him to his bedroom or spanked him or took away his PlayStation.
If he were continuing to hit his sister, then if I could, say, separate the children until their parents got back so that he couldn't hit her, then that would be a good thing to do, obviously.
But the statement isn't, "s/he should be punished," it's "something must be done." That could be as much as shooting them in the head, or as little as physically restraining him.
Something must be done, yes, but what that something is isn't covered by the question, so I don't have a problem agreeing. To me, "Something must be done" is very similar in meaning to, "this can't be allowed to go on." How you dis-allow it or stop it being done is another matter.
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My point was that it would be wrong for me to *punish* the hitter; I was imagining a situation where he only did it once and I then sent him to his bedroom or spanked him or took away his PlayStation.
If he were continuing to hit his sister, then if I could, say, separate the children until their parents got back so that he couldn't hit her, then that would be a good thing to do, obviously.
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I'm glad to see you're on the side of intervention :->
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Something must be done, yes, but what that something is isn't covered by the question, so I don't have a problem agreeing. To me, "Something must be done" is very similar in meaning to, "this can't be allowed to go on." How you dis-allow it or stop it being done is another matter.
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