Though hippie optimists call it bad, with the dumb saying an eye for an eye leaves you both blind, it would really benefit us if murderers and rapists and such got much harsher punishment. The government spends of billions of dollars every year on the prison system, and it could save a lot of money, and make it people were actually afraid to get in trouble. It costs millions dollars to execute 1 death row prisoner, depending on which state it happens in, when it would cost only a few dollars to drag them out back and shoot them in the head once convicted. The criminal justice system in the US is so pathetically corrupt that its sad really. Any criminal of any crime can buy their way out of trouble if they have the money, but then you get cases like my step dad who broke his own TV when he moved out if his exes house 5 years ago, and got charged with felony destruction of property and is currently serving 3 years for it because he can't afford a top-notch lawyer.
So, would you go rape the rapist?
If someone kills 2 more the one people, would you kill him twice?
And in this example, if you'd kill His mother, you'd punish the mother as well.In the situation of I killed your mum, would you kill me? or Kill my own mother in order to inflict me with the same pain? I personally would choose the latter, but maybe I don't love my mother as much as you loved yours, and that's how the shortcomings emerge ~