“Teacher: Discipline should be painful. By its very nature, discipline is painful. If it’s not painful, it’s not discipline.
Dean: But who should discipline be painful for? We could have kicked Elliot off the soccer team, but that would have been painful for the team. I don’t see what good it does to punish the soccer team for something one player did.
Teacher: You know that the game of soccer itself works that way, though, right? If a player gets a red card, they’re kicked off the field and their whole team suffers?
Dean: That’s different.
Teacher: If a father of four is driving drunk, gets into a wreck, and kills someone, should he not be sent to jail because it would mean “punishing his kids”?
Dean: That’s different.
Teacher: It’s not.
Dean: It is.
Teacher: It’s really not.”
-from my latest for CiRCE
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 