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Yet again, more evidence of the death of common sense. I believe the rationale behind this thinking is that if spanking is allowed, then somebody may get abused and injured. Therefore, society must legislate a removal of all potential threat to anyone, regardless of the idiocy.
In the "hands" of the right parents, spanking works. In the hands of an idiot parent, NOTHING will work. Society simply cannot legislate responsible parenting skills.
Someone told me a story once about a class exercise in a law school where the students were given an assignment to write instructions for the completely safe use of a hammer. Impossible. The thrust of that assignment was to bring the students back to reality and emphasize that perfect safety does not exist and functional living cannot be legislated.
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