Many modern people react with incomprehending loss to things perceived as dangerous to society: abortion, drugs, alcohol, divorce, race relations, industrialization, or the entire West (in the case of Islamic fundamentalists). All of these have led to modern violence, as in the Russian collectivization wars, or the American Prohibition.
In Medieval times, such feelings were, perhaps, more pronounced and parochial. And with justification protective of the Church. Comedy may be found in modern Inquisition apologists who point out that the accused could be tortured only _one_ time, in attempt to extract a confession. "Remember, Brother Williame, you have only one shot at this...".
