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I am speaking for myself, it's my personal anecdote and life experiences.

I don't disagree that there's people that beat children in the world, that's different entirely and should be condemned.

Spanking should not hurt the child, if it does you're beating them.

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Perhaps you ought to take a poll on whether spanking is generally painful, I think you might be surprised by the consensus of your peers.

That poll would just differentiate from the people who were beat and those who were spanked.

Spanking is no longer spanking when it inflicts pain.

> Spanking is a form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking, with either the palm of the hand or an implement, the buttocks of a person to cause physical pain

Straight from wikipedia.

There is no punishment mechanism to spanking without pain. This sort of strange homeopathic idea of spanking is unrealistic and I'm unsure why you're trying to paint this false picture of the world - the vast majority of parents who spank do so with the intention of causing pain to discourage behaviour.

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