A ton of cultures do, unfortunately. That said, it's also just bad parenting because (1) kids model behavior, so they will "punish" other kids physically and (2) punishment is one of the least effective forms of power, often producing public compliance but not private acceptance.

Just an fyi in case you need that in you back pocket when someone tries to argue in favor of hitting kids.

The vast majority of people still believe in archaic and draconic bullshit because it is "tradition", even to the point of ignoring all scientific evidence supporting the contrary perspective.

I was visiting the head office of a California-based company that I worked for, and my colleagues (mostly left-leaning) were moaning about a proposal to make it illegal to hit children. After 15 minutes I couldn't keep my mouth shut and said, "I think a society should protect those least able to protect themselves." There was a lot of backpedaling, but also a few people explaining how it was totally necessary that they hit their children for reasons.

I didn't have children at the time, but my step-daughter (now 20) and son (now 17) were never punished with violence, so it is possible for sure.

I think we should start hitting these people if they misbehave. After all they think it's the right thing to do.

NB: This is not meant seriously, I don't condone hitting anyone.

I can sort of understand the logic, even if I disagree with it:

If a child does something that could potentially have lethal consequences, a verbal warning might not be enough for them to understand the severity of what they did.

That is, of course, the only reasonable situation I can think of in which spanking is acceptable.

Alternate headline: "Americans objectively bad at morality across the board"

Bonus headline: "Don't spank it, hit your kids instead"

It's the same with death as it is with milk and corpse pleasure. People think consensually drinking your partner's breast milk is wrong, but stealing a cow's breast milk is fine. People think eating an animal's corpse for some family friendly fun is absolutely fine, but having sex with the corpse of your friend who signed a consent waiver before death should be a crime.

How hard is it to immigrate to Sweden (coming from the US)?

Religious people went on about "morality" as a way to groom people into sexual.shame, and then exploit it to control them. This country's eaders don't know.the first thing about real morality

Worst thing that happened to America was allowing the Puritans to leave in the first place. Should have just offed them all and nipped it in the bud. Would've saved a lot more lives

US society is fundamentally broken and has been for a long time.

Prudism is a blight that rots the fabric of society.

the palestine/gaza conflict has been going on for decades, it dint affect people at the voting polls since the past few elections, even the bush wars wernt even quesitoned that much by the public. likely due to copaganda/military propaganda shows and movies.

Most nuanced take, clearly based upon a deep understanding of American culture and politics. We are all just bad people who love war and genocide. There isn’t one party that gave all the power to check the president away and let him do whatever he wants, and there aren’t protests with millions of people regularly happening because we all love it.

It's not just damage. It seeds corruption, as is plain as day with Polymarket now.

I do believe it has crossed the line to "public hazard"

Gambling in the micro is not morally wrong. Games between friends with stakes and the like is perfectly fine.

Running a casino or sportsbook is almost certainly exploiting problem gamblers in a way that is unequivocally morally wrong.

Gambling isnt morally wrong, but running a casino is. Corporations should be banned from any gambling related activity, that way if a couple friends want to play poker or make a small wager on a football game, no laws are broken government doesn't get involved. But at the same time by banning corporations you make it so that there's no casinos no tv ads and more generally no capitalist industry preying on gambling addicts.

At minimum online gambling should be outlawed. That whole industry seems to make the issue so much worse compared to how it was historically.

The only thing worse than legal gambling is illegal gambling.

Addicts are addicts, they can't be helped and must help themselves. We all must learn to control our dopamine receptors, they are batshit crazy.

Ya that was really disappointing number to look at.

I guess we’re surrounded by morons

Been outside lately?

"Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans." - (Fallout quote)

This is why when people talk about AI not really being intelligent, but just glorified word association, I say, is that really any different from the average person?