All right, so this is a little bit, oh, debate prep.

Debate, debate, I have a debate tomorrow at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard.

Well, I guess we'll be in the past because I'm not going to put that out before the debate,

but a little bit of debate prep.

Ooh, it's been a while since I've done a sort of live debate.

So I'm going to put this forward as prep, and you can hear the prep after the fact.

This is my sound check.

It'll be played after the concert.

All right.

So spanking, of course, is the use of physical force to inflict pain to change a child's behavior,

I guess ideally, but the goal of changing the child's behavior, although, of course,

banking occurs in other contexts out of frustration, anger, impatience, and so on.

So it is a glaring exception to the general rules of society, and in fact, it is a complete

reversal of the general rules in society. Now, that is not necessarily making it false. We don't

allow children to sign contracts, so we don't allow children to drive cars, we don't allow them to vote.

So, just because we have opposite rules for children or restrictive rules for children doesn't

make them automatically wrong, however, none of the categories make any sense regarding hitting.

So, for instance, we generally consider it bad when a man hits a woman because, or worse than

the reverse, because a man is usually bigger and stronger than a woman.

We generally don't like it when a bigger child bullies, a smaller child, because of the size and strength disparity.

So, of course, we generally say that people who are bigger and stronger have a special consideration to not bully others. So, for instance, if our child is very weak and in a

wheelchair, we generally don't have to give them a lot of lectures on bullying, whereas if our child is

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