Shielding the eyes of little boys and girls from seeing other boys and girls be beheaded on a guillotine is bad for one major reason, if they actually witnessed first hand the horrors of decapitation you might actually have young people motivated to pursue social justice if one of their childhood playmates (or best friends if in high school) was decapitated.
Just a thought, over protective parents? Might motivate ending capital punishment, hardly a bad thing for society to do.
I still think there should always be capital punishment in literature in the 19th century, otherwise if one doesn't see the horrors of capital punishment how are we as a society to know the death penalty is bad?
I am anti-death penalty and also anti-censorship.
You'll find a lot of the people who are pro-capital punishment are also pro "protecting the sanctity" of childhood as well. It might just be an American thing though.
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