January 26.
Hugh Dougherty must be wrong in writing about young neds in Cathcart
(January 25). Solomon is now known to have been mistaken in saying that
sparing the rod spoiled the child; and today's youth, with no fear of
corporal punishment, are gentler and better behaved than previous
generations.
The streets are (they must be) safer to walk at night than ever
before, and vandalism is at an all-time low. Anyone disputing this is
guilty of the fault of independent thinking, even of looking at the
facts, instead of believing what he is told to believe by those who
claim to know best. Oh, and the emperor's clothes are beautiful, simply
beautiful.
Or is it just possible that if you guarantee never to wallop the weans
in any circumstances you raise a crop of neds? People believed so for
thousands of years -- indeed until the recent arrival of a lot of
plausible rogues proclaiming the opposite, the emperor's con men.
M. D. Thornton,
12 Bellfield Road,
Stirling.
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