> To hit them would show a lack of understanding, control, reason, and temperance. These are bad things to teach.
This is true, certainly.
> The child hasn’t had the opportunity to develop their reasoning faculties
You're mistaken if you think that poor self-control is predicated on a lack of logical reasoning.
But anyways, point is that no trust is lost when a parent hits a child; children don't apply that kind of transactional logic to personal relationships. We only learn that much, much later when we get to the politics that underlie school and work environments.
There is. Children might grow up to despise their parents, like I do with mine. They won't see them as more than a nuisance, and will wish the parents were dead.
This is true, certainly.
> The child hasn’t had the opportunity to develop their reasoning faculties
You're mistaken if you think that poor self-control is predicated on a lack of logical reasoning.
But anyways, point is that no trust is lost when a parent hits a child; children don't apply that kind of transactional logic to personal relationships. We only learn that much, much later when we get to the politics that underlie school and work environments.