>>4461424Wrong. Beating the shit out of a child (or anyone that deserves it, really) is a valuable moment in humility that not enough people get. Unless your moral compass is already well tuned, learning that being a fuckshit of a human being has consequences is a powerful initiation into how the world (should) works.
That isn't to say that systematically or routinely beating a child is good, and as you point out, leads to lifestyles that incorporate simply hiding being a piece of shit. But if you ever meet enough people, you'll come across someone that clearly should have had the shit beat out of them at some point because it's evident they act like nothing they do has consequences and/or they simply do not care if there are any.
