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Corporal Punishment
David M. Moore, MD
Kern Medical Center Bakersfield, Calif
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(5):469-470.
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In his Commentary on corporal punishment, McCormick1 states: "Any adult-child interaction that could be called corporal punishment would be considered illegal battery if it took place between adults," and "without question corporal punishment is a violence problem." However, corporal punishment is not violence. It is the use of pain for the purpose of training children so that they will avoid behaviors that would bring them greater pain (whether physical or not) in the future. If any pain inflicted on a child is violence and therefore unjustifiable, then certainly immunization of children by injection is unjustifiable violence as well. This type of immunization involves the premeditated infliction of pain, with the use of physical restraint, to inject a foreign substance by means of a sharp object in order to permanently alter the child's immune system. All this is done against the child's will and in the face of his or
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