But that's an implication we need to talk about, not assume. Deliberately hurting anyone should be serious stuff. Most American kids get beaten, almost all toddlers and half the adolescents. A fifth of American parents in use belts or sticks to beat kids. Kids need pain and humiliation.
Most social scientists say beating adolescents, toddlers or babies has bad results.
For preadolescent children who can talk, results are mixed. Usually, spanking makes children more prone to violence than other kids. Though the children's interpretation of the punishment modifies this effect, it doesn't erase it . Beating has bad effects in other ways. So the best results we get from spanking our kids are mixed.