I was going through a article on medium regarding the protests of Women's rights to vote. Something that encapsulated my attention is that after they were taken into custody, they went on hunger strikes. There, they were forcefully fed. I remember the same thing happening during the Indian Independence Movement, when Bhagat Singh and his colleagues went on a hunger strike, they were forcefully fed; there was however, one person, Jatin Das, who died of it after like 50 days or so.

What confuses me is, why feed them? They are revolting, let them. What good would it do to break their strike. Their death doesn't make any difference either, as all revolts are eventually taken by iron hand.

P. S. Noobie here.