Unlike other punishments which are drawn out, look, for example at some of the American way’s matrices; the non-cp route offers days of drawn-out punishment over days hour at a time, or the total waste of a Saturday, possibly at least a week after the offence, or wasted ‘suspension’. The immediacy of cp both to the offence and its signification of closure is one of its more appealing features.
Of course that requires the correct regime, immediacy of accountability, and never to cane for ‘trivial’ offences ( one of my main objections to many matrix-based US paddling regimes). My first caning brought together a number of offences, all minor or mid-level, under the heading of ‘general attitude’.