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Note: I unfortunately couldn't get the videos to embed correctly. If anybody has a solution for that (like a link that might have the solution) I'd appreciate the help. Hey guys, just thought I'd post some cognitive dissonance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaVoq5WCKx8 If you're not familiar with American college football, that is a small and impressionable child who is getting praised and rewarded for violently beating a dummy resembling an opposing player in the game of American football. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqhfLTsEeZg but yeah... if you don't spank your kids, that's how we're going to get them to not be violent sociopaths. It's sad when the TV is actually a better parent than the mother and father. Stefan, please tell us how to solve this problem... crickets.p.s.In another video he has his kids dressed up as superheroes as they interrogate the family's house cat, using intimidation tactics to try to force a confession of "eating up that plant". I swear you can't make this stuff up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUEnNDH4RY ... and another one where the kid is just yelling "equality" repeatedly. Not freedom... but equality... which I'm assuming he would have no problem using violence to achieve. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7i-OnA8rWk but at least he's teaching a lesson about good food choices. Because morality is about choosing to eat responsibly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7drttEwz52Q When I was his age, my parents were impressed that I could recite the Lord's Prayer. Not this, a song about a violent French rebellion. The rebels who are portrayed in the song as heroes were seen as an extremist minority in government propaganda of that time.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez-CnmH28fQAnd I'm pretty sure my mother would send me to time out if she saw me playing like this, but not this dad. He encourages it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CEb8a5EShk Because it's fun to do mean things to people you don't like... and Michigan fans don't like Michigan State fans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMcXFAEdrU Stefan, you have suggested unschooling and refraining from physically abusing children. I agree that parents shouldn't hit their own children that they supposedly love and care deeply about. I have a problem with the notion that this will solve the broader problem of prevent sociopaths in our society when violence is a fundamental pillar of it. Remember, this dad is a good father who plays with his kids all the time and never would dream of hitting them.