"Roger T." wrote in
landnet.com:

Funny, when we used to beat the crap outta kids who did this sort of
thing, kids didn't do this sort of thing.

So, back in the good old days of social utopia, which kids did we 'beat the
crap' out of, if kids didn't do 'this sort of thing'?
Or did we use to beat the crap out of them all, just in case they might
have otherwise become kids who did this sort of thing? Institutional
physical abuse as a cure for society's ills... Not a particularly
attractive society, IMHO.

Rick.