Parents who resort to corporal punishment are almost universally, I would submit, adult victims of childhood corporal punishment themselves. Maybe this falls into the “weak-minded” group you speak to, but this comes back to my point about perpetuations of cycles of violence. It should not exist. I think it ought to be illegal, obviously many people agree, and listen, lots of people disagree. I think it’s morally and ethically wrong. But dehumanizing and turning into caricatures every person who has ever hit their kid is, I would submit, not an affective way of dealing with the problem at hand. I tried to illustrate this in my original post, but hey, some people really do just love grabbing on to very simplistic ways of viewing issues, even if those simplistic views do less to work to solve the issues themselves then views that I personally feel would be more effective. Obviously everyone is free to disagree.
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