re: Was Adrian Peterson justified in beating up his 4 year old?

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different age, different time, I would have been taken away from my parents and they would have been charged back in the day, they're some of the greatest people in the world and so am I

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Many of our ancestors in the South used to own slaves. It was a cultural thing and it was the way they were raised. They were good people though.



It was wrong then and it is wrong now. The same is true for "discipline" that is taken to the level that Peterson used. It is child abuse, and it was child abuse 30-40 years ago. The fact that it used to be accepted is completely irrelevant.