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If you have to fight an insane enemy, you do not win by becoming just as insane. You are selling fear in an attempt to justify a kind of bestiality that has NO justification. The fact that some people do it doesn't make it right for us to do it. You are advocating becoming the very thing that we despise the most about those people. Why become the very thing that you hate and fear?

There is something very Biblical about your "eye for an eye" attitude. Civilization is not based on doing unto others as others have done to you. We don't do to serial killers what they do to their victims, we didn't lynch the folks who lynched black people, we don't allow the victim's family member to "pull the switch" on the killer. There is a reason that we don't "do unto others as others have done to us", and it's because you can't make a civilization with the tit for tat mentality, we have to be better than the people who oppose us or we risk having a "Hatfields and McCoys" world where only the most vicious predators will survive. That's what I meant about a "sad and ugly" way to live.

The bad thing about integrity is that you can't buy it or steal it.

<blockquote data-quote="Mare Tranquillity" data-source="post: 15786" data-attributes="member: 434">If you have to fight an insane enemy, you do not win by becoming just as insane.&nbsp; You are selling fear in an attempt to justify a kind of bestiality that has NO justification.&nbsp; The fact that some people do it doesn&#039;t make it right for us to do it.&nbsp; You are advocating becoming the very thing that we despise the most about those people.&nbsp; Why become the very thing that you hate and fear?There is something very Biblical about your &quot;eye for an eye&quot; attitude.&nbsp; Civilization is not based on doing unto others as others have done to you.&nbsp; We don&#039;t do to serial killers what they do to their victims, we didn&#039;t lynch the folks who lynched black people, we don&#039;t allow the victim&#039;s family member to &quot;pull the switch&quot; on the killer.&nbsp; There is a reason that we don&#039;t &quot;do unto others as others have done to us&quot;, and it&#039;s because you can&#039;t make a civilization with the tit for tat mentality, we have to be better than the people who oppose us or we risk having a &quot;Hatfields and McCoys&quot; world where only the most vicious predators will survive.&nbsp; That&#039;s what I meant about a &quot;sad and ugly&quot; way to live.The bad thing about integrity is that you can&#039;t buy it or steal it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mare Tranquillity, post: 15786, member: 434"] If you have to fight an insane enemy, you do not win by becoming just as insane. You are selling fear in an attempt to justify a kind of bestiality that has NO justification. The fact that some people do it doesn't make it right for us to do it. You are advocating becoming the very thing that we despise the most about those people. Why become the very thing that you hate and fear? There is something very Biblical about your "eye for an eye" attitude. Civilization is not based on doing unto others as others have done to you. We don't do to serial killers what they do to their victims, we didn't lynch the folks who lynched black people, we don't allow the victim's family member to "pull the switch" on the killer. There is a reason that we don't "do unto others as others have done to us", and it's because you can't make a civilization with the tit for tat mentality, we have to be better than the people who oppose us or we risk having a "Hatfields and McCoys" world where only the most vicious predators will survive. That's what I meant about a "sad and ugly" way to live. The bad thing about integrity is that you can't buy it or steal it. [/QUOTE]

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