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Twitter isn't capitalism, nor is Elon Musk. He says "I love capitalism" in the same way as Emperor Palpatine says "I love democracy!"

Do you feel awkward being called a better person? I'm not doing it sarcastically or as a trap.

I agree that there's never a good reason to hit a child. I mean unless you're training martial arts with them or something, but that's obviously not what this is about.

Surely a person with better self-control (like yourself, apparently) is a better person? Or a person who doesn't turn to violence when they get too angry to control themselves. Especially as a parent, who is constantly pushed towards angry, at least at some points of parenthood. That's what I was wondering about: were you a parent with superior self-control or were you a parent with the sort of a child that you didn't really need superior self-control?

I had my first child decades ago, and until then I had the self-image of being a calm person with a pretty high level of self-control. That image sure vanished quickly, and I was poorly prepared for the dissonance.

This is commendable of course. Do you think it's because you're just a better person, or because the child was a better person? Where would you put yourself in the nature vs nurture dimension?

Great source, thank you!

This will sound like I'm shifting the goalposts (and perhaps it is), but I was at least on some abstract level thinking of something more benign than spanking.

Can you cite such studies, please?

https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/djt looks a bit pumpy

I wonder how the ethics here work. If I enter the pump phase, leave before the dump, I'm effectively stealing money from the MAGA cult. Is that a good deed?

I wish.