@MaYaZlatu Scientific research clearly shows the likelihood of negative outcomes increases when you’ve been spanked as a child. We can’t see them, just as we can’t see our children’s daily growth. To claim that on this basis spanking a child is fine means that we fall victim to anecdote, rely on our availability heuristic (thereby dismissing all broader data to the contrary), dismiss alternate views, fail to learn and progress by engaging with a challenging idea.