If some stranger tried to do that to my kid I'd probably make a good attempt at kicking their ass. There is no excuse for this. I am also against slapping or smacking.
That being said, I also think that parents whose kids are having a fit should do something about it, if they can. But then, some kids just elude any kind of reasoning in those situations. It's life. I think kids who are brought up right for the most part will not be doing this kind of thing that frequently.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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