This echoes my views perfectly. From hearing the way the general public talk, it seems that many people are just using the pretext of "justice" to veil the fact that they don't seek crime prevention or anything of the sort; they just want blood and suffering, and it's acceptable to air such fantasies if the person you purport to want to inflict them on is a criminal. I think there should be a kind of conversational intolerance toward expressing these desires. Talking about how much one wants to cause someone to suffer/die should be responded to as you'd respond to someone talking about how they'd love to be a rapist.
In short we should focus on the perverseness and barbarity of revenge, not the initial crime.
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In short we should focus on the perverseness and barbarity of revenge, not the initial crime.
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