My main point though was about the duality of a country that posses weapons of mass destruction yet has abolished the cane.
My main point was that, as a matter of fact, society has, for several hundred years, been becoming more and more squeamish about dishing out punishments which hurt. (Even in the parts of America where they still kill execute criminals they try — or claim to try — to make the process of being killed as painless as possible.) Someone had said that public opinion was still in favour of the cane, and that if traffic had been better controlled during the royal wedding, it would still be use. I don’t think that’s right.