I'm up for debating whether hitting your children makes them tough - I'm on the fence personally. Maybe tough is a dirty word. Not tough in the toxic masculine

I'm up for debating whether hitting your children makes them tough - I'm on the fence personally. Maybe tough is a dirty word. Not tough in the toxic masculine sense but tough as in resilient. Being physically tough can often build a self confidence and mental strength that many people underestimate. You'll never get me to agree that people don't need to be tough. Just as you should wear a seatbelt even if you're the safest driver in the world, you should be tough because you never know when adversity may come. Just like how you can't control for drivers around you. Maybe in a world only operating self driving cars can we stop wearing seat belts - and yet random failure will still happen. Bad weather, network failure, cosmic ray bitflips take your pick. Given you are 45, people of your parents' generations came from truly tough times. Plenty of people I know from my parents' generation remember what was like to be truly hungry. I've seen the UK slowly become more violent and dangerous in my own lifetime. We're facing increasingly unequal times, geopolitical tensions are high as world powers go for hegemon. We have a displaced workforce - much like the run up to WW1. Climate change may well bring even greater hardship. Summer lasted all of about 1.5 generations, I hope my children will be tough so that they have the resilience to face whatever the world throws at them and pick themselves up and always move forwards when they navigate the world we leave behind for them.