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Originally Posted by triplexxx
No, I don't think they deserve it; and even though they aren't your average family, it doesn't make physical assault any more appropriate a way to deal with family; he can be strict,keep them strong, and discipline them without doing that. And I'm not saying Splinter is self-absorbed, but i did think it was a little peculiar that the only enemy he eventually desired them to face is the one he had a personal matter with, and I have seen him be disrespectful once or twice when someone didn't deserve it, some examples I've already given.
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Oh for god's sake. Mankind has been using "physical assault" as a way of discipline since mankind became mankind. It is still used in most of the world I would reckon... do you really believe yourself to be more civilized than the billions of parents who've used physical punishment over the history of mankind? Do you know better than all of them how they should've raised their children?
My father used to physically discipline me. The same can be said about many of my friends. It taught us discipline and to stay out of trouble and to know our boundaries so that the family could function harmonically. And I've never heard any of them complain. And most of us had great childhoods.
Physical punishment works. It does not ALWAYS work, but nothing does. It's a good and proven way through the course of so many years that it sounds insulting to even suggest that it's wrong... even more so when you consider it's only been in vogue for a few decades in some parts of the world...
But the other points you made about Splinter I can agree more with. Splinter is not a saint, and he has his faults. I mean come on, he didn't HAVE to put his sons through countless hours of hard (and dangerous) training to become lethal shadow warriors. So why did he? I do believe revenge was the main motivation, although that might've changed over the years when he grew wiser. I mean, he started off as a rat... probably, as a rat, he did not know much about concepts such as ethics and honor and how to raise children (and why), and the only thoughts he might've had were those of revenging his master. Therefore, he could have adopted the turtles not out of kindness (to protect, raise and teach), but more so to use them as his tools of revenge?