What she did is cruel, and this is also cruel. Eye for an eye is the law of savages. To be better than the oafs of the past is to be civilized, for what is progress if we are not better than we were?
for what purpose? satisfying a base desire for revenge? not everyone has that as some families are capable of forgiving and those with faith can see other options. so as a society we decide what is best for society. what function would locking someone up for a long time and attempting to rehabilitate serve for a society verus torturing them? I think that is one of the qualities of a society that is moving towards a better world where murder becomes less prevalent and that is what by and large has happened to our society.
of course ive had people do bad things to me. and again it seems that you have a hard time accepting a consequence can be something other than torture. having your freedom taken away from you is a consequence. but we have to be smart about what the consequences are as there are consequences to what we do in response as well.
That's normal in US. A lot of people here are very interested in murderers, what's going on with them. Pretty much no one cares about victims. I do not think anyone here would tell the name of the girl they beat, tortured and murdered, without searching for it. Pike even took a piece of her scull for good memories.
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u/FaerieQuene 2h ago
She asked for a firing squad and was denied. In hindsight, wouldn’t that have been the better option?