I'm not sure if I should say agree or disagree considering it's two options, but I kinda believe that the second one might be the most likely. Sure, we can solve the problems of today, but every generation has its own problems that we as a society need to overcome in order to progress. It's also not that hard to imagine a scenario in which the world ends whilst either a conflict is being resolved or it ends because of that conflict.
Spanking/hitting/physically abusing a child is probably going to cause more problems to them in the long term than it's going to solve them in the moment.
Spanking/hitting/physically abusing a child is probably going to cause more problems to them in the long term than it's going to solve them in the moment.