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What I hate is the arbitrary number.
Spanking is not child abuse. Excessive spanking is child abuse. There's no arbitrary legal number that says, "More than X spankings per day is illegal." And yet child abuse laws are still enforceable. The problem with arbitrary numbers is that they are just that and they punish/restrict perfectly responsible people based on misguided attempts to, and forgive the hyperbole, trade freedoms for safety.
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