Sweden says games turns us into killers.

[Geno]

Oh and remember -- this action in France is not liberal. It is conservative. As I have said before. Don't confuse your values with universal conservative values! They are not!

I don't recall ever saying whether the religious ban in France was liberal or conservative. :hmm:

Anyway... yes, my parents spanked me a few times as a child, and of course I got mad at them. I thought I was right and they were wrong, but because of that spanking, I dared not do whatever it was I got punished for again. Over time, I developed my own sense of morality and realized that my parents were right and I was wrong. I always was a sneaky little bastard, and I still am; whenever my parents tried to take something away from me, I always found some alternative. Spanking was the only thing effective enough to get me to behave. Every now and then, promising something for me if I behaved would work, but usually it was something I could live without and I didn't care much. My parents never made me stick soap in my mouth like in A Christmas Story, and they usually discussed things with me before and/or after spanking me, even sometimes using discussion as an alternative to physical discipline. I can see now that they never wanted to spank me and only did it when nothing else worked. And that little bit of fear caused by spankings and threats of spankings was what kept me from doing wrong long enough to learn on my own why those things were wrong.