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Many forms of corporal punishment are illegal in most places now. In Canada, if you're 14 or older, no one can use it on you legally. So we're expected to reason with hormones. I'm not sure about the laws regarding the parental incarceration of teenagers.
Teenagers have their own agency, but not many of them have the capacity for reason that we would expect in adults.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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