Justin Timberlake in 2007

It’s funny how Palantir is really good at helping Israel kill and persecute its enemies but it doesn’t seem to be able to stop Left Wing terrorism or black crime at all. I guess that’s what Peter Thiel meant when he said “we defer completely to Israel.”

If your child is too young to understand why their behavior is wrong, they're too young to understand why they're being spanked. If they're old enough to understand, then spanking them is both unnecessary and, at best, a shortcut around some other method that would actually help them understand. There's no real argument against this. Every single "valid situation" people offer is retarded. "My kid was going to run in the street/they were hitting their sibling/they were going to pull boiling water on themselves." All your fault, all your responsibility, whether they are old enough to understand why these things are wrong or not. If you fail to prevent these situations, you turn to your inability to correct your child without blaming them for YOUR mistakes. So many of you have been oneshotted by lead-brained Boomerism. You make retarded, invalid analogies to war or criminality. You imagine hypothetical scenarios in which you feel morally righteous about hitting your kids. It's no wonder so many of these people bought into COVID hysteria and have now become Talk Radio Americans with the intellectual depth of Clay Travis and Benny Johnson. You are failed normies who just want an opportunity to exert frivolous, unearned authority over a person with no ability to resist or counter you. You would be right at home in the HR department or the public school teacher's lounge or a civil rights law firm. You would be cozy and comfortable in the unempathetic, narcissistic Boomer generation, who just got done lecturing you about how you should eat saltines with a squirt of ketchup on them to save money and never experience joy so that you can afford a house in 20 years. And these people will call you a "liberal" for noticing.

Corporal punishment is largely indefensible, but it sits secondary to a broader problem: disconnected punitive parenting as a whole; including emotionally driven responses and the gap between parents’ expectations and their children’s actual comprehension.

Spanking is an admission of complete and total failure as a parent. You failed to educate your child properly, you failed to raise them to actually care about wanting to behave properly, you failed to control minor behavior issues with controlled access to privileges and time-outs when you could have nipped behavioral issues in the bud. You failed. Completely and totally.

I heard samurai children were raised with care never to scold or control them too much. As that would dampen warrior spirit in them. The average run of that nation was bred and taught to be docile and submissive, but if you want to cultivate predatory and haughty spirit...