#obviously mutatis mutandis this applies to other systems of punishment all over the world

[tanadrin]

got sucked into a wiki rabbit hole reading about judicial caning in former british colonies in southeast asia, and it's always morbidly fascinating to see how much time, effort, training, legal and cultural and social rationale, and marshaling of professional forces from bureaucracy to medicine can go into systems which exist, in the final effect, to inflict the same feelings of on someone as, like, a father beating a small child senseless.