What do you define as violence exactly?
Pinching is violence too? Do you let your boys be #violent# during the recess? Because most kids are way more violent with other kids than just spanking. Do you do anything about that or just turn a blind eye to it?
Spanking has been around forever and has never had life threatening or civilization threatening implications. Why dont you compare spanking with nuclear weapons while you are at it?
"Spanking has been around forever and has never had life threatening or civilization threatening implications."
Thanks for making the point better than I did. The movement against spanking as being bad in such an absolute way is fairly recent. And, afaik, science has not backed this up.
I'm going to open a new thread with this old post on a spanking research by Carl "the numbers guy" Bialik in the WSJ a few years ago:
Spanking has been around forever and has never had life threatening or civilization threatening implications. Why dont you compare spanking with nuclear weapons while you are at it?