"Spanking has been around forever and has never had life threatening or civilization threatening implications." Thanks for making the point better than I did.

"Spanking has been around forever and has never had life threatening or civilization threatening implications." Thanks for making the point better than I did. The movement against spanking as being bad in such an absolute way is fairly recent. And, afaik, science has not backed this up. I'm going to open a new thread with this old post on a spanking research by Carl "the numbers guy" Bialik in the WSJ a few years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161784 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161784