Tony Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1328983344' post='2385474'] Except that the daughter posted [i]her[/i] rant online for everyone to see..... [/quote] a few hundred friends on FB vs 16 million + views on youtube, you're right, she posted it for everyone to see Edited February 12, 2012 by Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 He did the right thing. It wasn't unnecessary or cruel at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) If he had done all the things he did in that video but only shown them to his daughter, or even just to her facebook friends, I'd call that perfectly acceptable. It's when you're basically broadcasting this stuff that I think it crosses the line. People may not realize this, but posting something to youtube these days is equivalent to broadcasting it on TV in respect to viewership. I understand that what she did was unacceptable behavior for a child, and I'm not arguing against that view here. But I'm saying that if such a thing is unacceptable for a child to do, I would also suggest it's unacceptable for a parent to do. As an example, as a child, if I publicly embarrassed my parents at the shopping mall (as opposed to online, since I would have been too young then) I would have been quite nicely thrashed. At home. IN PRIVATE. Not in the middle of the mall. Then again, my parents are not big fans of implementing eye-for-an-eye discipline, and neither am I. Edited February 12, 2012 by arfink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BittersweetMaine Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 He was the one who let her have a Facebook in the first place... I think his manner of discipline was pretty harsh, but since I don't know how his daughter behaves on a daily basis, I can't really decide if she deserved it or not. Some kids need a wake-up call like that every now and then. Perhaps she had been snotty and disrespectful in small ways previous to her rant, and that just finally made him blow up and decide that she needed taught a lesson. 8| Oh, and I'm sad that he wasted the laptop. A lot of people could have put it to better use. But I bet it wouldn't have been as much fun for him! xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I'm just imagining a situation in which that girl grows up and attends a job interview after college, and one of the younger interviewers looks at her father's name on her [i]résumé[/i] and says, "This name sounds familiar.. Hey, wait, isn't your father the fellow who shot up his daughter's laptop and then posted a video of that on the internet?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tally Marx Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 She got it rather easy. My father would have obliged, paid me for the chores I did, and then made me (using that salary) pay him rent, food, tuition, clothes, etc. He would have taken away my computer and anything else he bought me, and made me buy it back from him. I would have been cleaning the entire house from ceiling to floor every day for six years, just to get out of debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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