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I'm not asking people to treat children as adults. I'm just saying that hitting a child is always as abusive as hitting an adult, and often more so because the child has no chance …

It is injurious. It causes harm. We know it causes harm. But let's go with your incorrect assertion that it doesn't cause harm. Try slapping one of your co-workers, and then in cou…

Sure, but Parent poster is linking to accounts who are also making the same disclosure. "Here's this product I ahve". And while I didn't look through the entire posting history of …

You grab a child by the arm and drag it -- that's potentially violence, but we'd need to look at the action as a whole. You hold a child's hand to guide it -- that's probably not v…

Sure, but parent poster mentioned violence against the child and I'm always always going to say that it's wrong.

> because we have no story for dealing with nuclear waste. We have no story for dealing with CO2 waste from fossil fuels, and so far we know that's destroyign the planet while nucl…

There are designers and creators and inventors on HN and they have an interest in protecting their work from being copied by other firms. But there are also a bunch of people on HN…

Anna Boniface has made some important contributions about RED-S (reletive energy difficiency in sport), which often accompanies an eating disorder, or disordered thoughts about foo…

> 2. a parent spanks their child because their child misbehaved, and the parent is then investigated by the authorities They should be investigated if their parenting is so poor th…

I used this account to see how accurate you are. Not very, as it turns out.

> But in her late 20s Jacka managed to recover and stay well by focusing on her diet, exercise and sleep. Depression is a relapsing and remitting illness so people get better and w…

This video shows traditional techniques to attach a ladder to a tall chimney. It comes in two parts. I'm not sure when this was filmed, but some time in the 1990s would be about ri…

Self promotion within limits is fine for HN. See, for example, this valued contributor who posts links useful content they've created. Most of these appear to have been upvoted, no…

The first one is just someone asking for a product recommendation, and someone else giving a recommendation. Nothing about that looks like astroturfing. The second one is from an a…

From the comments: > the long-short of this: Say nothing, ever, except “I am (ironically) exercising my right to remain silent, and I want a lawyer”, unless your lawyer says you ha…