To spank or not to spank?

[Esquilax]

Poisoning your children for discipline seems odd.

A lot of things previous generations did seem downright arbitrary or insane, really. But they get carried on because tradition is a powerful thing. Part of coming after, I've learned, is refusing to be complicit in the things that make no sense; I don't talk to large swathes of my family anymore because the mental abuse and intimidation that got passed down from parent to child like a fucking heirloom for generations was unacceptable to me, but oh so very normal to them.

We're not obligated to continue bullshit because it's old bullshit. Thus, I'll only ever spank submissives, not children, and if anyone ever tells me that the appropriate response to bad behavior is relentless, hounding pressure such that they can't even think of repeating it in future, I'll tell them to go fuck themselves.