No, there exists not even the remotest possibility that that opinion is worthy of (either remote or local) consideration. As for why, millennia of much-harsher

No, there exists not even the remotest possibility that that opinion is worthy of (either remote or local) consideration. As for why, millennia of much-harsher-than-caning attempts to deter crime have long-term failed to do so while there is still a strong incentive to that crime, and the only (brief) moments in which any of them have apparently worked was, coincidentally, one in which said crime was dis-incentivized. But, you know, go ahead and keep trying the same stupid thing over and over and expecting different results.