Beating Children/Spanking

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Apples and oranges. If children had the cognitive capability than adults have, then the only differences between the two groups would be physical and experience. Then you take a midget who has lived a sheltered life and he'd be no different from a child. An adult might not learn from a spanking, but a child will.

Children do not have the same cognitive abilities as adults. Thus, a child will take a beating less appropriately than an adult would - after all, an adult will listen to "reason" about how the abuse was justified. Children of course take entirely the wrong lessons from virtually everything, and it's not as though hitting a child to correct their behavior is actually rationally justified.

A simple example, again:

It's like touching a hot burner on the stove. They'll do it one time and learn never to do it again.

Yes, exactly. Once you beat your child and then demonstrate a causal relationship between the beating and the negative behavior the child exhibited, the behavior is instantly corrected. My goodness you are a fucking idiot.