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Originally Posted by smooth
I guess what I mean by that question is I conceive of the incarceration period as a cooling off period, but nothing more. I didn't learn much from it, anyway. The way I walk my life now is a product of what I learned from positive influences in my life, not imprisonment. I wonder if you feel the same way upon reflection.
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It's wasn't the time incarcerated that I learned from, it was the act of the incarceration at it's inception that taught me a new consequence, though your reference to a "cooling-down" is quite accurate. Once I understood that incarceration was one of the consequences I began to reassess what I'd been doing and came to several conclusions and adjustments to what I felt was acceptable behavior. Granted most of this were things that I learned about myself and not from the incarceration. On that note though that's why I've advocated supporting the action, in the hopes that it would be the particular catalyst much as it was for me in allowing this child to learn as much about herself as anything else.
I also think that you and I would define violence differently, for instance, I don't include things like spankings as violent unless done with a malicious intent. As you put it I much prefer the use of the word force as it seems, at least in my head, to be much more accurate.