User blog comment:Queen Misery/PE Discussion: Sawney Bean/@comment-1705775-20191230025346

only reason the Peacock Family failed is because Edwin showed true remorse over the deaths of his offspring and the show made it clear the family was protective of each other.. Sawney on the other hand only really saw his clan as extensions of himself, he likely forced himself on his offspring too, he wasn't capable of having any feelings beyond psychopathy - if you go strictly by the stories.

he had no tragic backstory either, he literally just decided to go out and become a killer, his wife was just as psychopathic and it doesn't help Sawney's case that his wife and all female offspring would be hidden away in caves, used only for breeding and cooking / preserving while his sons would help him murder people.. that's not really a "caring" family unit.

his anger at the execution wasn't really because of his family being killed, it was more his last middle-finger to the world in general and trying to scare people as he had lost all other power at that point.

there's no stories that detail the family life of Sawney beyond the tales that they engaged in cruelty, barbarism and incest as well as methodical murder.. I'd say Sawney is still a horribly evil character and like people have mentioned before raising a family of killer, inbred offspring doesn't equate to actually caring for them.

remember that Frollo raised Quasimodo for years, he fed and clothed Quasimodo - he never loved Quasimodo.. while this may seem an unfair comparison but it shows that just providing the basics for survival doesn't make you a caring individual.