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Some of you seem to misunderstand where we who support spanking come from, and have used deliberately misleading and blatantly biased terms such as "brutality, violence and beating" to refer to a swat on the ass. You say that force and threat of force don't work properly as training methods, and you disagree with the application of those tools in training children.

So I have a few questions. Do you go speeding in your car past the police station? Do you drive more carefully with a police car directly behind you? Do you look at the gun on a policeman's belt and decide to behave yourself around him without him ever having drawn it? Would you let some things slide in front of a police officer that would normally start a fistfight?

Simply put, the answers to those questions are the exact same for me, even if you were to replace "police officer" with "parent" and "police station" with "parent's house." I'm 20 years old, haven't had a spanking in roughly six years, but my parents taught me there were consequences for my actions, just as there are consequences for breaking the law. Yea, there are things that are only worth a slap on the wrist or a speeding ticket. But there are other things that warrant a whoopin or jail time. If you put a 5 year old in a jail cell for three days at county, he wouldn't comprehend exactly why he was there, he'd just know that this wasn't home and he missed his parents.

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