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E-collars can be used but only as part of a specific training regimen, and only on lowest setting the dog responds to. They shouldn't just be left on all the time and used whenever the dog is doing something bad. Positive reinforcement works way better than negative reinforcement, but sometimes a bit of negative is needed along with the positive.
The only negative stuff I do is tell my dogs no in a stern voice. My beagle has bad anxiety and was clearly abused in the past, so I don't want him to regress to the state he was in when I got him. That wouldn't be good for me or the rest of my critters.
That's totally reasonable. Negative reinforcement is almost never necessary. I was just pointing out that it can be helpful if used sparingly. Just be aware though, attention is reinforcement, so if you are ignoring your dog when it wants attention, then it acts out and damages something, then you come over to scold it, your dog has learned that acting out will get your attention.
As a dog trainer I worked with previously put it: "the opposite of 'reward' is not 'punishment', it is 'no reward'"