This is something quite- interesting. The disconnect from felt reality to actual reality.

Capital punishment and brutal punishments never did deter the truely desperat, who are usually squeezed by society and physics. And yet, they continu existing.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articl...

Our brain creates a raging feeling, that demand pain to be treated out to percieved wrong doers.

That the wrongdoing might have been to set children in a world with no jobs, no future and no proper parenting, is ignored.

That it is applied without deterence or change of effect. Ignored.

Just a animal scratching a itch, no matter what.