Corporal punishment would not have made me behave any different, maybe worse if anything. In fact I wish I went to a school with that kind of punishment instead of the school I went to, which just skullfucked you mentally.
Physical pain is temporary. Mental anguish can be for life.
I do have regrets for the way I treated my family, and about the way my parents acted. Divorce always sucks way more for the kids, even if it’s a good thing for the adults.
I was a good kid. I just went to the wrong school, and raised in a completely bullshit religion, as opposed to the mostly bullshit religions. My parents have failed me in many ways, but religion and school choices were the big ones. I still love them though. They’ve done their best, and I have in many ways been very lucky, to have them for family.