It is this fact that gives me the least amount of optimism and greatest sadness with regards to the UK, it stifles it's future before it has even begun. If you look up any statistics on 'spanking' in the the UK as it accords to age of children hit and regularity it is truly demoralising. But hey, it's those damnable terrorists we need to watch out for right?

It is my personal belief that it would be harder to populate the British military and quite possibly the Police too, without traumatized men and women that have normalized themselves to violence from an early age (as an anecdote, I have observed pro military American work colleagues often have had pretty dark childhoods too).

But this is just a facet in the depravity and degradation of British 'culture'. I do not admire the Swedish government, but outlawing 'spanking' in the 70s was probably one of the best things that the nation has done for itself since the great famines (of which I have less than passing knowledge of).