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KI_Simpson posted...

Explain why hitting an equal is worse than hitting someone smaller than you who you are supposed to protect.

Speaking from a purely moral perspective and not a legal one, if your job is to rear a child then it falls to you to address how to punish them when you deem they've acted out. Spanking is one method and, while not warranted in every case, would definitely be used if I ever heard my 4 year old tell anyone shut the fuck up especially a person of authority who they should defer to such as a teacher. This is what my parents would do to me and it is what everyone's parents would do who grew up in my time and place. (Actually, I can tell you if this happened in my school growing up first the teacher would spank you, then the principal/administrator, THEN the spanking you got when you got home would be the worst of all).

You mentioned the parental aspect of protection. I would argue not punishing them at appropriate times would be tantamount to not protecting them. If you haven't drilled it into the very core of their being to respect authority and others then there's no telling what kind of trouble they may get into at later ages.