[delecti]

Not really. Thousands (tends/hundreds of thousands?) of years of human society isn't going to just evaporate from a couple studies, even if they're incontrovertible.

[InclinedPlane]

Do you understand the post hoc fallacy?

[delecti]

I am not arguing that corporal punishment is effective because society has progressed. I'm saying that people are inflexible and even irrefutable science is unlikely to cause an immediate societal shift.

[InclinedPlane]

So your argument is that humans are feral? I don't think that's supported by the evidence either.

[kaens]

His argument is that culture is slow to change.

[delecti]

How in the world did you get "feral" from anything I'm saying?