In August or September of 1949, I was 6 years old and had just stared the 2nd grade, I was out under a very large oak tree playing with some cars and trucks during recess. Another kid, my age, came along and wiped out a portion of the roads I had built in the dirt. Needless to say I took exception to that and the fight was on. One of the teachers saw the fight and broke it up and escorted both of us to the principals office where we both subjected to a few swats of her paddle. When I got home, I was living with my mother's parents, my grandmother paddled my butt again and when my grandfather got home it was deja-vu all over.
If that scenario was to play out today there would probably be at least three people in jail and the two combatants would probably feel as though they could get away with anything without any penalty.
This, in my opinion, is one of the major things wrong with our society today and it needs to be changed.