Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nfsun!ditka!formtek!darth!pitt!cadre!geb From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Free Will & Self Awareness Message-ID: <1244@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> Date: 14 Jun 88 14:48:51 GMT References: <770@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk> <1177@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1176@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <5323@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2436@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> Reply-To: geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks) Distribution: comp Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA. Lines: 13 In article <2436@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> cfh6r@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu.UUCP (Carl F. Huber) writes: >In article <5323@xanth.cs.odu.edu> wet@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Warren E. Taylor) writes: >>In article <1176@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>, geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) writes: >> >>"Spanking" IS, I repeat, IS a form of redesigning the behavior of a child. >>Many children listen to you only when they are feeling pain or are anticipating >>the feeling of pain if they do not listen. > Whoa! This is not a quote from me! Myself, I would prefer non-violent forms of punishment, since I think kids learn the legitamacy of violence from being spanked. But, I should mention, I don't have kids, so I may not be the one to ask about it.