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ColdOne666 posted...

Just because you got abused doesnt mean everyone else did. Of course your a unique snowflake and the whole world revolves around you so nobidy else's experience is valid.

I know everyone else didn't, and I never said peoples experiences weren't valid. The flaw with the "I was spanked and turned out fine" argument isn't that I'm saying you're wrong and you actually didn't turn out fine, the problem is that you're not a mind reading psychic that knows how your kid will respond to it. Multiple studies and the unanimous agreement of experts come to the conclusion that you're risking negative psychological impact on your child significantly more from hitting them than with other more effective forms of punishment. You don't know where someone I going to end up from that until they're older and either they're fine or they're not fine.
Parents jump through so many hoops to ensure their child's safety and well being yet when it comes down to something like this idiots will go "ehh fuck the risks, they'll probably be fine" because then they'd actually have to deal with their kids like a normal person and that's just too much work... Or sometimes it's not wanting to do more work but just straight up ignorance and the "my parents hit me so I should hit mine too!" thought process. Which also keep in mind that spanking kids is linked with them not only growing up and repeating that behavior on their kids, but also with higher raters of domestic abuse and other forms of intimate partner abuse because to the surprise of nobody with common sense, raising kids through their developmental years on the logic of "I'm hitting you because I love you" can have really fucked up results.

The fact is that you're notably increasing your child's risk of a variety of types of issues by spanking them over more effective forms of parenting and you'll never know which side of the statistics your kid ends up on until it's too late. If you want to stay ignorant to that basic facts then fine, but it doesn't change the facts. Don't unironically cry "snowflakes" while intentionally choosing to deny basic facts that don't agree with you, it comes off pathetic. Again, just, stop your bullshit identity politics.