Not long ago, "murderers and child rapists should have to live with what they've done" was considered a perfectly reasonable defense of an abolitionist position on the death penalty. It's interesting to notice the new pushback against "maximum punishment" for even the worst crime https://twitter.com/Vanessa_ABee/status/1218019316454563840 …
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yea, so I'm not particularly mad at the people with the vengeance fantasies so much as the system that has left people like this
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I don't disagree, I just want to point out that vengeance in this context may be a societal immune system response: if you target the weak and helpless to avoid any fighting back, the strong will come after you
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