Beating, and in fact hitting, is not desirable. Discipline of the child may be neccessary, but what most often creates people like Phil is an unhappy home environment where there is not respect between the husband and the wife to provide the model for the children. If there is respect, and a sound religious basis to the home, such base problems can be nipped in the bud, god willing.You have to beat them up, like Angelo did to Phil, to prevent this disaster.