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I don't want to have a child just to earn some kind of arbitrary license to determine whether it's ever okay to slap one.
I don't have to have a child to know that there is a good chance that inflicting pain on a child could have long-term consequences.
By that same logic, I don't think parents need a Ph.D. in child psychology before they should formulate an opinion on the matter.
By that same logic, I don't think that parents should have no say whether there should be corporal punishment in schools simply because "they don't know what it's like being a teacher."
By that same logic, I don't think I need to marry before suggesting that caning your wife as a form of punishment is wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think being too close to a matter can cloud your judgement.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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