> America as you know it today, with all its prosperity, was created by people who were spanked as children. I mean, I guess it could have been worse- you coul

> America as you know it today, with all its prosperity, was created by people who were spanked as children. I mean, I guess it could have been worse- you could have said "America as you know it today, with all its prosperity, was created by people who burned witches" or "...who practiced chattel slavery." Those same people also practiced bundling [1] as a courtship ritual, and used mercury as a treatment for melancholy [2]. Out of all the practices you could have cited, why on Earth would you pick beating kids as a factor in America's success, instead of something more benign? You're smart enough to know the difference between correlation and causation. Do you have evidence that physical discipline was the reason America became the country it is today? If you don't have such evidence, how do you know that we wouldn't have been even more prosperous without corporal punishment as a child-rearing method? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_(tradition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_(tradition) 2. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/22/mercury-was-considered-a-cure-until-it-killed-you.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/22/mercury-was-...