re: We are three days into this thing with Elliot Rodger

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I fricking loathe this low rent, ignorant homespun wisdom about "arse whooping" and straightening a kid out when someone doesn't have a fricking clue as to what was going on that home or what the family was dealing with. Schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, sociopathy, etc, are very, very real. No amount of "arse whooping" will take care of it.

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Corporal punishment has its place with discipline. But Eliot's problem wasn't a discipline problem. This kid lacked age appropriate social skills. He tried to teach himself these skills vicariously instead of through first hand interactions. One can easily see this through his videos and I viewed only one. His personal 'ego boundaries' never expanded or developed much further from infant stage.

Step by step, his continual lack of guidance with age appropriate emotional/psychological role models, social feedback, emotional processing, and development created a beast. He was very sick.