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wwinterj25 posted...

Zeus posted...

He was asked not to do something and kept doing it anyway so.... fair next?

Hey Jimmy stop breathing!
*kid continues to breath*
That does it Jimmy! Give me 1000 lines saying "I won't breath"!

To my knowledge, nobody has ever suffered any sort of health consequences from not saying "ma'am" that are comparable to those associated with not breathing. At worst, you might get a case of OCD or a similar disorder where not saying it results in a panic attack, but in that case that justification would have been presented and probably accepted before this became an issue.

It's a pretty arbitrary thing to punish a kid over, but if somebody tells you they don't want to be called something and you keep calling them that (beyond reasonable forgetfulness), you're pretty clearly being a dick. I'd say it's a bit of an overreaction, but not an unreasonable lesson to teach a kid.
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