You hear people talk about corporal punishment as a form of humiliation like that's some revelation. The hum in humble comes from humiliation, right? I'm not sure what the problem is here. We were all spanked as a child unless you grew up in some hippie camp. We all hate our parents and we all turned out ok. Do we want our kids to live with us until they die? Why would they want to leave the house and get married and have their own kids if they don't decide they can show us how much better they can do it?
Anger is a motivating force and if you want to keep competition and the American way going you have to perpetuate that dysfunctional drive or we'll all start doing artsy crap. Why do you think all the music from the 60's and 70's came from the British bands? They weren't spanking their kids and they weren't driven to conspicuous consumption and baby booming economic control of the world. Capital punishment is just extreme corporal punishment and where would we be without that? If people (or kids) start thinking they're just as good as everybody else, then what's to stop them from thinking they're above the law or God's will? It's a slippery slope.
I brought you into this world and I can take you right back out.
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