Reply #26: I second you. [View All]

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I couldn't reply because I knew I'd be getting sarcastic and nasty.

Those people in prison expressing "them selfs" are, many times, the sad result of an upbringing by people who lacked the intelligence, imagination, or just plain good character to refrain from hitting their children. Teaches those kids a lesson, alright. It teaches them that it's O.K. to beat up on those around you who have the misfortune to be younger, smaller, weaker, not human, less powerful, and in your general vicinity.

And so, the younger get older and the smaller get bigger and the same sick shit gets played out again and again. Maybe "them selfs" won't be acting out or "expressing" "them selfs" in prison. Maybe they'll be showing you the lessons they learned up close and personal. Or maybe they'll show your children, or your pet, or your lover.

People who use B. Spock's name as an insult, have not, I suspect, read his work.