[defconw]

I know I wouldn't. All of us will admit that there were times when we deserved what we got. But what about the times you may have been hit and it was not deserved? That breeds resentment, resentment breeds anger and that anger festers, and it will come out in direct proportion to violence done to you. The person acts out against society or against themselves.

Lots of beatings going on in ghetto homes, I don't see the gang bangers having benefited from what they call discipline here. I see anger.

[Fantasywriter]

That’s the key element, or close to it. I.e.: the world of difference between a father who lives in the home and displays his love for his children on a routine basis, and on occasion must discipline them, and a virtual stranger who lives his own life, who every now and then sees his children, and seems always to find a need to deliver mega-’discipline’ on those rare occasions.

There really isn’t much overlap between these two situations. The discipline a father metes out to a son he knows and loves cannot be compared to the discipline a near-stranger dishes out in a furious rage. It’s not even apples and oranges; more like apples and rotten eggs.