Not even when you were very young, say three years old? Or even when another child did something wrong?
Because if that is true, you certainly are in the minority.

Did you never see the hypocrisy of your parents, that it was okay for them to smack you, but not okay for you to smack other people?

You know what? You are right. I totally missed this the first time but when I was younger and my sister would do something wrong I would hit her, not too hard though...

When I first read yours I was thinking in a situation with other children my age like daycare or something, so that's why I said never...

Man now I feel like a hypocrite

But yeah, I get it now... although parents are supposed to have rule over their children and teach them what's right... and right now they probably want to smack some sense into me but they don't and sometimes I feel I deserve to be smacked because I disobey them ;.;

I would spank my children (if I were to have them, don't plan on having them though), but I would also combine it with a psychological sort of punishment such as taking something away or imposing limits.

Grounding hasn't worked for my younger siblings though, as my parents have become sissies about punishment in their older age. If my little siblings act like assholes and annoy them enough they get what was taken back, which is promoting their shitty behavior. Punishment only works if it's gone through with to the full extent.

I think there are certain situations in which spankings are a proper punishment. Hell, I remember the last time I was spanked. Even what I was wearing! But I was so upset by it that I never ever did whatever it was that I had done again xD!
I got time outs when I was little, or I had things taken away, but I would go and get them again later. I've since y'know, become a whole hell of a lot more responsible, but I think my parents discipline was a reasonable one. I don't see how spankings can be so horrible, so long as they're reserved for extreme situations. Other forms of punishment can and should take precedence. But when you've punished your kid for doing something and they continue to do it three or four times...that's, in my opinion, when you take out the spanking card.

No.

We don't even use that word in this country, in that sense... very few parents might give their kid 'a slap' though.

When i was young i was the type who was shy and quiet and i ran behind my dad at any little noise (parents thought it was cute) and i never got disciplined because i was always near my parents and i was to terrified to do a bad thing so now i still don't believe in spanking children but sometimes its necessary like if they start becoming violent or something.