On Corporal Punishment

Corporal punishment makes children into men and women worthy of the ‘human’ epithet.

It concentrates their minds, it centres them, makes them able to cope with
the vicissitudes of life.

Without it, society cannot inculcate the Ten Moral Commands into the malleable
minds of the Youth.

I know this will ruffle many a feather. But I stand by my words.

Without just, moderate, and unemotional corporal punishment, children do not thrive emotionally, mentally, and socially. They remain stunted. At best, they raise stunted kids in turn. At worst, they become the mass shooters, the murderers, the criminals, the sociopaths, and psychopaths, mass media report on.

Look at the mess Western society has become in the last two generations. Ever since the 80s, there’s been a pervasive invasion by the state of what has always been the monopoly of parenthood. I am talking, of course, about child rearing. Government has told, nay, educated the last two generations of parents that physical punishment is unacceptable, unwanted, and must disappear from the arsenal of parenthood, or else.

Consequences

An increasing number of children stopped developing. Without the stimuli driving responsibility-learning, their parents failed to teach them the consequences of their actions: good and bad. Add to this, a need for immediate gratification of their least worthy inclinations, and you get the recipe for the immature people featured on The Big Bang Theory, Silicon Valley, and any number of shows people watch today.

Is this the responsible thing to do? Are we doing the right thing? And if not, then perhaps we must do something about. The notion that government knows best how we should raise our kids is abhorrent. Nobody knows how to raise their kids. It is not a question of knowledge. It is only about the parental right to rear, educate, protect, raise, and prepare the fruit of their loins for life.

Now, if our principles dictate independence from this pernicious mindset, then war against the forces seeking to destroy parenthood is the only way. It has come to that.

The Alternative

Louis Cachet, born Kristian or Varg Vikernes a.k.a. Burzum / Mayhem, is a Norwegian born author and musician known for both black metal albums and crimes. In short, he’s a maniac. The murdering kind.

Back in the 1990s, this deranged individual set fire to four Christian churches, and stabbed a friend to death. After serving 15 out of the 21 years he was sentenced for arson, murder, and possession of explosives, he moved to France, got married, started a family, and a YouTube channel.

In short, society allowed him back in her generous bosom. Now, my opinion is that while people like this are bad, definitely bad apples, the issue is not with them. There’s always been bad apples. It’s society that has gone very wrong.

Let me be clearer. Back in 2003, when this nutcase was serving his sentence in Bergen prison, he was granted a short leave. The principle is completely idiotic when it comes to convicted murderers. But hey, I’m old fashioned like that. I do not believe in rehabilitation for violent crimes. Call me what you will. Back to him. The man is on leave, he goes on a run, stops a car, hijacks it at gunpoint, and 19 hours later gets arrested.

Here is the list of items recovered from the hijacked car. By the way, it’s obvious he either had accomplices or he had stashed all this stuff while on leave or prior to going to prison.

The List

• Knives
• Gas mask
• Camouflage clothing
• Portable GPS navigator (not available in 1994)
• Maps
• Compass
• Laptop
• Mobile phone
• Handgun (in a cabin)
• AG3 battle rifle (in a cabin)

It is clear the man was going to go on killing rampage. Society is wrong to believe hardened criminals can ever be rehabilitated.

The Background

In an interview he gave in 2004, while in prison, he mentioned his mother was “working for a large oil company” and his father was an electronics engineer. When he was 6, his family moved to Baghdad where his father worked for Saddam Hussein, on a computer program. As there were no places in English schools, he attended a regular Iraqi elementary school.

This is where the plot thickens. At age 6, he allegedly became “aware of racial matters”, whatever that meant to him. Corporal punishment was very common in the school, and on one occasion, he had a “quarrel” with a teacher whom he called “a monkey”. It is at this point the Iraqi school system failed him. It is to this point in time we can retrace the societal failure to discipline a young mind. This is the smoking gun for the later arson, murder, and criminal tendencies displayed by him.

The Iraqi teachers “dared not hit him because he was white”. Even if the underlying reason for them not disciplining him had been different, the outcome was skewed. Whereas his peer would receive a just comeuppance for acting out, he alone could do the unthinkable and get away with it. His own mother recalled that “the other children in his class would get slapped by their teachers; he would not”. She mentioned this created problems, but generally she “had no good explanation” of how he developed his views.

Well, I have a strong idea of how he developed his views. If the schools he attended failed to chastise him for being out of line, and his parents obviously also chose not to physically punish him, no wonder he started acting out his impulses as a 21-year old.

If we add to this, his father’s being “pissed about all the colored people he saw in town”, and his mother’s “very race conscious” demeanor, and how the woman “was afraid he was going to come home with a black girl”, the fact he instead chose to keep a swastika flag at home goes to show you reap what you sow. Oh, sweet irony, you!

In fact, if this was not a tragic story about the failure of our society and government causing the death of a man and the burning of four historical churches, it would be downright comedic.

Racist father and mother raise Nazi son – that is an apt description of his family and life story.

One can only wonder if he had been punished for his early misdeeds, where would he be now?

Would he have turned out the danger to society he became? Or would he have become more or less socially adjusted and functional like most earthlings?

If only we hadn’t stopped punishing our kids, maybe just maybe, a lot of people would still be alive today. As for the burned-out historical churches of Norway, those were rebuilt.

But who’s going to give those people their lives back?