Passage 2: I cannot agree with people who say that smacking( 用巴掌揍 ) children does them no harm. Of course it harms them, both physically and emotionally. Hitting another person is assault( 攻击 ) and it would not be tolerated against an . Many s have no sense of the cruelty of smacking precisely because they were smacked themselves as children and erroneously regard this as normal. They then go on to assault other vulnerable people, perpetuating a vicious cycle.