I’ve never understood this. Isn’t it in the interest of people in power or people jailing you to watch you starve to death? Yet in prisons and detention centers, it’s always the go-to. Why do they work?
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They only work if they garner the sympathies of the public who, as a mob, are not very rational. So it’s the emotional manipulation of the public.
After a while, public sympathy becomes public pressure against those in power to change laws or a course of action.
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