At the risk of sounding too ghoulish, I wonder if the right lens to view this through might be that of alienation from one's work. TFA's executioners are techni

At the risk of sounding too ghoulish, I wonder if the right lens to view this through might be that of alienation from one's work. TFA's executioners are technicians, dressed up in the gloves and scrubs otherwise associated with people who save and preserve lives. Saudi executioners use a fucking sword, you know, like we always have! Of course, that cultural factor helps too. Not that dressing up in a black hood and hanging people would necessarily be less traumatic, but maybe we'd think differently if there was a cultural continuity of hangmen hanging people which we were all casually aware of as a consequence of growing up and learning about the world.