Correlations between religion and objectional beliefs/behaviours

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

There is something that can be said for corporeal punishment though:

On edification and coercion, even loving coercion, and when coercion fails

Upon further reflection, there are many circumstances involving coercion where it can or should be edifying, but again, whether or not it is depends upon the recipient: their attitude and their humility, their honesty with others and their honesty with themselves, their teachability and their childlikeness. When legitimate coercion fails, it can result in righteous anger on the one side and deserved punishment on the other, and sometimes one without the other.