This is the sad reality, and it just perpetuates itself. My old graduating class found me on Facebook through my sister (sigh), so for a while, I was seeing their group conversations. Corporal punishment came up, and most of my peers, who had all been subjected to this, thought that hitting kids in school or at home should be permissible. After all, they were hit when they were kids and they grew up “just fine.” My counterargument was that they did not grow up “fine” because they grew up to be people who thought hitting kids was O.K., but that point was mostly lost on them.
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