Some propositions on the 'smacking debate'

• People who are unable to distinguish between smacking and beating and abuse should be abjured from public debate on the issue.
• Parliaments do not exist to "change the culture," they exist to write law.
• Personal views on how you would discipline your own child or how you yourself were disciplined as a child are irrelevant to the issue of writing laws that limit how others discipline their own children.

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