Public Humiliation Is Wrong
Imagine if you got in trouble by your parents for something, and you didn’t want your friends to find out. Then, your friends do find out, make fun of you for it, and you’re totally embarrassed. Your parents decide to punish you by making you wear a sign saying what you did and have you stand next to a busy road. Not only are you embarrassed by your friends knowing, but now the whole city knows. This is what happens when public humiliation is used as a punishment. While this form of punishment may be appropriate for deplorable offenders, I do not agree with it for less severe actions. Public humiliation is a very acceptable punishment for inexcusable crimes. On average, there are 400,000 registered sex offenders just in the U.S.
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Parents have one main job when it comes to their children, and that is to raise them. They are the ones who teach their children right from wrong; the ones who scold their children when they do something bad; the ones who decide the punishment to give their children. Deciding the punishment may be very difficult for some people, however. Not punishing them is going to teach the children nothing, but a punishment too harsh can ruin them forever. Public humiliation, for example, is one of those punishments that is too harsh. “Humiliation works wonders, and can be a better form of discipline than beating your son up and leaving him a bloodied mess.” (Belkin, 1 of 1) I disagree with this statement. Humiliation does not involve physically abusing someone, but it does involve psychological abusing someone. Publicly humiliating is the same as bullying. Children who are bullied are much more likely to develop mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety, than adults who are bullied. Parents are suppose to stop bullying from happening, yet they bully their own children by punishing them in a degrading way that could affect them for the rest of their lives. “It’s a full-on trend designed to denigrate a person’s sense of pride and dignity.” (Warren, 1 of 1) Children should not be punished in a way that can ruin their mental
Parents have one main job when it comes to their children, and that is to raise them. They are the ones who teach their children right from wrong; the ones who scold their children when they do something bad; the ones who decide the punishment to give their children. Deciding the punishment may be very difficult for some people, however. Not punishing them is going to teach the children nothing, but a punishment too harsh can ruin them forever. Public humiliation, for example, is one of those punishments that is too harsh. “Humiliation works wonders, and can be a better form of discipline than beating your son up and leaving him a bloodied mess.” (Belkin, 1 of 1) I disagree with this statement. Humiliation does not involve physically abusing someone, but it does involve psychological abusing someone. Publicly humiliating is the same as bullying. Children who are bullied are much more likely to develop mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety, than adults who are bullied. Parents are suppose to stop bullying from happening, yet they bully their own children by punishing them in a degrading way that could affect them for the rest of their lives. “It’s a full-on trend designed to denigrate a person’s sense of pride and dignity.” (Warren, 1 of 1) Children should not be punished in a way that can ruin their mental