Reply #256: not necessarily [View All]

[Deep13]

Small children are irrational by nature. They want all they can get and will use any behavior available to get it. It is a survival instinct resulting from millions of years of evolution. You will not get around that by being reasonable. Spanking out of anger is irrational, reactionary and abusing. Doing it in a controlled manner because nothing else works and control must be asserted is rational and calculated. Besides, parental control should not be the subject of negotiations.

Spanking is violence to a limited degree, but concluding that it is automatically abusive is a conclusion based on ideology, not evidence. Spanking can certainly be abusive, but not always. Humans are violent by nature and violence pervades our society. That will always be a fact.