Lets start with a position that hitting people is bad????? Please, we all know that on occasion the police have to tune up some idiot and if they adjust his attitude in the process that is a good thing! Also newsflash - although you may want to pretend that this didn't happen - when our troops were in Afghanistan they actually killed people and that is far more than hitting! Sometimes when you have an out of control brat you have to smack him a good one, that is both good at calming the situation and good for the kid cause it sticks with him!