Matt, bottom line is, if this big huge happy society that you say everyone has agreed upon is founded upon the teachings of the ten commandments, and christianity, like most of the modern world is today, being that most all laws in the world follow the rule of Christianity, then no killing is right. Even the judges who act like god up there in their thrones passing off death sentences have no right. They're ordering people to death in the name of their god, the same god that says thou shalt not kill! Hah!.Haha. Gotta love that, almost as bad as the pro lifers killing people. Anyway, the rule is, you kill, you go to hell, in this grand society of yours. end of story, there's no sub clause or anything citing specifics.
However, this mass society that you speak of, the one that "everyone" agreed upon, doesn't exist. If it did, every culture, and everyone within every culture would think the same way, but we don't. It's just the popular culture. just because it's popular doesn't make it right. just because it's popular doesn't mean it's well thought out. Not everyone wants to follow the popular rule.
A death is a death. Rules are the rules. It's just plain out wrong. Even if you did it out of revenge, it's wrong. Might have seemed right at the time, and you know, to you, it still probably would be right, and it always will seem right, but it's just plain wrong. if it wasn't wrong to do so, well, hey you wouldn't be having laws against it right? You wouldn't be pissed at those kids right? I guess you'd also say some rapes would be justified too? Or some burglaries? Or some whatever and evers?Yes, killing is an instinct, but in this magical society you speak of, it's still not right. Harming others isn't right, unless it's necessary, killing someone is never necessary to prove a point, I'm sorry, i don't care what the situation is to make someone think it warrants a death to make everything right again. Maybe way back when we were cavemen, I guess it was considered right, because hell, we didn't know any better, we were pretty animalistic, we weren't ahem, civilized as we were today.
I think that yes it is instinct to want revenge if you are connected to the people. But I think that whenever someone does something like this, it is offensive to any sense of societal structure.
Still, what does a society gain from attempting to right a wrong with a wrong, and offing more of its own? What does it prove? Is it going to scare a killer into not wanting to kill? No. Will attempting to help the person with drugs or whatever to set him straight? Most likely. So why treat the problem with something you KNOW doesn't work?
How would you like it if just for some weird reason your DNA just decided to one day spazz out and fuck up your brain chemicals and turned you into a crazed psycho and you went on a killing spree? "but I wasn't in my right frame of mind, it wasn't "me" doing it!" So all the people that think like yourself damn you to hell and put you to death, instead of helping you become "you" again. Nice right?
Anyway, whatever, you can think how you want, and I'll think how I do, nothing anyone ever says will make the other one think differently.