Dirty, please, read some of the studies. You are criticizing them, but you don't know what you are criticizing. You assume all the conclusions come from a minority who were corporally punished to the point where you'd call it abuse. This is not the case. Believe it or not, it is possible to study the effects of moderate corporal punishment. You have my guarantee.
As for the argument that corporal punishment works for a ton of people, that's not a valid argument. Wife beating worked for tons of people too. Shouldn't society's moral ideals be a little higher than aiming at what simply works? If you see someone hitting a dog, I assume you think they're being a ****. I'm not sure, but I'm taking a wild guess that you'd feel something like that. However, if you see a parent hitting a child, you think that's okay. Why is that? You really and honestly think it's good for the child long term?
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