I don't know why you think I believe that witholding TV is cruel, I was making a point about what many people think, which is something you are incapable of doing.
I never said I believed witholding TV is cruel. You do not know how to read.
So let us see, TenPenny, you claim to speak for ‘many’ people, how many? 1, 2, 10? 50%, 90%, 100%? Presumably not 100%, perhaps 100% - 1, since now you claim that you don’t believe that.
When you claim to speak for many people, you should be able to back it up. Do you have an opinion poll to support your assertion? You probably don’t. Or were you speaking like a politician? When a politician says ‘people think that’, or ‘people are totally against that’, what he means is that he thinks that, or he is against that.
I think your statement was made in the same vein. You don’t have any evidence for your assertion that many people think that, so the only conclusion is that you personally think that, and you claim to speak for many people.
It is clear to me what happened here. You made an outrageous statement (that many people think that withholding TV is cruel) to support your pro spanking position. Perhaps pro spanking position can only be supported by outrageous statements, I don’t know. Then you realized how it sounds, and now you are trying to wriggle out of it.
Anyway, if you don’t think that withholding TV is cruel (and I am glad you don’t), on what do you base your assertion that many people think that withholding TV is cruel? How many people did you talk to? Did you conduct your own poll? Can you cite a poll in the literature?
You spoke like a politician and you are trying to wriggle out of it, but it won’t work.