DEAR ABBY: In a recent column, you pointed out that hitting a child teaches him that "might makes right."
It also teaches him that violence is the answer to all conflicts.
I recall the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh." -- ARTHUR H. PRINCE, MEMPHIS, TENN.