我还没舍得打过你吧
“I never beat you, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“if you spare the rod, you spoil the child. Ziqiu,”
我 还没 舍得 打过你吧
“I never beat you, right?”
“Forget it. We have different ways of thinking.”
“I love you too much to ever lay a hand on you, so don't preach that beating children is good.”
This directly confronts the traditional idiom 'spare the rod and spoil the child' (棍棒之下出孝子), reflecting modern Chinese parents' internal conflict between ancient disciplinary norms and gentler, affectionate child-rearing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be willing to part with or endure doing something painful
Often used in the negative '还没舍得' or '舍不得' to express tender reluctance to harm or part with someone.
Softens the rhetorical challenge and solicits agreement from the interlocutor.