[WillH]

Yeah, corporal punishment for kids is outdated, and just a bad parenting practice. Essentially you teach children that if someone is doing something that you don't like then you hit them to make them stop. That's why these kids have problems later in life, the only coping skill to deal with adversity that they learned was violence.

I'm willing to bet all these guys were abused / whooped as a kid, but someone has to break the cycle.