☿ // 006; [anonymous text]

[fionnuisce]

A few questions for you.

If someone's existence or action is so reprehensible as to require a form of vengeance, is it then 'right' to act against them? Does one evil act justify another?

Furthermore, does any act justify murder in the name of what's 'right'? (Assume our example is in a place where death actually has normal consequences.)

Comments

[greyerrant]

You defer to the moral and societal system you initially come from. There are some generally accepted precepts of morality that most people have historically accepted, such as the idea that killing and stealing are wrong, and those who perpetrate those acts need to be placed outside of the norm through punishment and shunning.

Most often, you end up with an ad hoc justice system that may or may not serve the purposes of those participating in it, though the nature of the specific judgements it will hand down are likely to be far more variable (and less just) than the controlled jurisprudence of an established court.