[icebraining]

Who said anything about hitting a child? We were talking about grounding them.

[DanBC]

Kenji said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13901382

> Kids used to get a slap when they misbehaved. [...] I'd take the slap over the other things any time of the day.

And when this specific instance (child runs into road) has come up before there are always people saying they'd hit the child.

So, I'm just checking if that's what jasonkolb meant or not.