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Not really. Thousands (tends/hundreds of thousands?) of years of human society isn't going to just evaporate from a couple studies, even if they're incontrovert

Not really. Thousands (tends/hundreds of thousands?) of years of human society isn't going to just evaporate from a couple studies, even if they're incontrovertible.

InclinedPlane 8y ago
Do you understand the post hoc fallacy?
- delecti 8y ago
  I am not arguing that corporal punishment is effective because society has progressed. I'm saying that people are inflexible and even irrefutable science is unlikely to cause an immediate societal shift.
  - InclinedPlane 8y ago
    So your argument is that humans are feral? I don't think that's supported by the evidence either.
    - delecti 8y ago
      How in the world did you get "feral" from anything I'm saying?
    - kaens 8y ago
      His argument is that culture is slow to change.