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Assault is abuse. It doesn't matter whether you assault someone with an open or closed hand.

• mam2 6y ago
  Abuse is abuse. Separating physical abuse from moral abuse and thiniking it is worse is a very modern idea. Before, slapping a child was not abuse, now it is. But that doesnt mean before the abuse of children did not exist, just that a slap was not considered abuse if it was justified. Personally i think moral abuse can be far far worse than physical... in part because people have harder times to take the decision to leave. Im not even defending sean connery's point here, just trying to make some sense in why he could be something else than THE BIG EVIL for having this opinion at that time.
• globular-toast 6y ago
  It's not that simple. I was smacked as a child because I was a little shit and deserved it. It wasn't abuse. It worked and taught me to respect my parents.
  • pmoriarty 6y ago
    This sounds like Stockholm syndrome. If you respect people who beat you, it should be despite them beating you, not because of it. Also, it's been shown that people who were abused as children are more likely to go on to abuse their own children.
  • Barrin92 6y ago
    Not only is that actually abuse, it's also illegal in most of the developed world for that very reason. That some people have internalised their childhood abuse and rationalised it as 'it worked', because they don't want to recognise that their parents treated them wrong doesn't change that. In fact it actually proves an important point, that it is important to always speak up against abuse, because a lot of people who have been abused often in an attempt to not deal with it rationalise it away.