Ah, but isn't ignoring your submissive, or showing how upset you are because you're so mad, just as "dangerous" emotionally to your submissve?

In fact, I think many submissives would far prefer physical punishment to emotional punishment. I think emotional punishment is actually the cruelest cut of all.

So if I'm mad, I'll galdly count to ten and apply my hand or paddle to her bottom so we can set the infraction aside and move on.