To scare people away from raping infants?
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A little bit of public justice eliminates a lot of private evils.
No it just creates an underground market.
That underground market exists today without the execution of infant rapists.
Better to have the latter.
Ideally there would be multiple layers of theological, social, and political incentives, of which public executions would be a strong one.
I get that.
Is a private execution not enough?

