Hey! I'm sooooooooo happy the chill I was feeling when writing this came across. It felt actually stifling and terrible while I wrote these parts and I'm glad it worked out to the readers as well.
And heck yes, that hypocrisy was chosen wisely because while not in real life, I've certainly read a lot of opinions about how "occasionally slapping the child" or "tanning their hide if they disobeyed, hahaha" is absolutely not the same as child-abuse ad it's so not violence if the child deserves the pain. And a lot of those opinions were coming from those who were sent out to gather the right rod they would then be beaten with. And those guys thought it was oh-so-funny, and they totally deserved it.
Which honestly boggles my mind and I'm really grateful that it does because it means I never got to feel the fear, apprehension, shame and feeling of powerlessness being physically punished leaves. So yes - poor Steve.
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