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He said that live was nasty, brutish and short in those days, and to make an impact and a deterrence the king had to be over the top cruel.
I don't know how true that is, as I suspect there's a large element of people just liking to be cruel if they have the opportunity.
I have a couple books on the cruelties done by armies in WW2, and in the American west, and could not finish reading them.
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He said that live was nasty, brutish and short in those days, and to make an impact and a deterrence the king had to be over the top cruel.
I don't know how true that is, as I suspect there's a large element of people just liking to be cruel if they have the opportunity.
I have a couple books on the cruelties done by armies in WW2, and in the American west, and could not finish reading them.