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kitties, for friends

[images are 3 paintings of cats. 1: a brown tabby crouching as if preparing to pounce, gazing up wide-eyed at a blue butterfly. 2. a ginger tabby squinting happily and rolling onto her back as if asking for pets. 3. a black cat and a grey cat nestled together, the grey staring out wide-eyed at the camera and the black burrowed into the grey’s side.]

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Four Cut Sunflowers, 1887 by Vincent Van Gogh

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self care is so damn difficult when you… don’t… care… about your own self

valtsv

as long as i strike terror into the hearts of my enemies what does it matter what my "gender" is

valtsv

i don't identify as "male" or "female" i identify as a threat

hungwy

I wish I could terrorize ancient people with things that are commonplace today

despazito

releasing a roomba into the greek forums

yugirimistwalker

anyone who puts this on their blog is really really really gay

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*me @ the demon under my bed* scoot over i wanna cuddle

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fan-of-many-expert-of-none

Am I the only one who thinks that hitting a kid and abuse are different things? Like, if I ever had a kid, I wouldn’t spank their ass raw or something like that. But a bop on the mouth or the ear pull or a smack upside the head? Yea. Those are behavior modifiers.

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Except they’re not.

The studies done by the trained psychologists in this joke show that little kids don’t associate being hit with the thing they’ve done wrong. Very small children only understand consequences that are directly caused by the thing they did. Steal a biscuit, biscuit tastes good. Then for no reason mummy hit me. Very different to stole a biscuit, now no biscuit after dinner because I stole a biscuit.

And they also show that when a child is old enough to understand why they are being hit that non-physical punishment is equally as effective and less mentally harmful in the long run.

Do you know who benefits the most from hitting as a punishment? The parent. It gives a satisfaction rush. Parents do it because it makes them feel good.

Basically kids have two stages: too young to understand why they are being hit so physical punishment is useless for anything other than teaching a child that bigger stronger people can hit you whenever they like (Which sounds like the same lesson you would learn from abuse)

And the second stage is old enough to be reasoned with so many punishment options are available and you chose physical violence because it makes *you* feel better, which is an abusive action.

The only time a person should ever use violence against another human being, of any age, is to stop that person from being violent themselves.