"If a pervert molests or abuses your child and you dispose of him, put him 6 feet under the river in some cement shoes but never harm another soul the rest of your life (assuming your family is never touched again); do you become a monster?"
Yes. Simple as that. You are now as bad as him. In fact worse, because you have ended a life, rather than just traumatised someone. (Also if you are religious you have just broken a central Commandment in 'Thou shalt not kill.')
It's not your place to take a life and be an executioner. We live in a civilized society and there is a legal process for punishment under the law. Acting outside it makes you a vigilante and if we all did that society breaks down. Not only have you compromised your own soul, but you have participated in the erosion of the social contract.
Alright.
You turn the other cheek & allow the pedophile to walk away.
He then goes on to molest 5 more kids, totally destroying their lives and sentencing them to decades of therapy and all sorts of mental & emotional issues.
Do you still feel so good about yourself?
At what point do you become complicit in committing evil by not stopping it when you have the chance and right to?
"If a pervert molests or abuses your child and you dispose of him, put him 6 feet under the river in some cement shoes but never harm another soul the rest of your life (assuming your family is never touched again); do you become a monster?"
Yes. Simple as that. You are now as bad as him. In fact worse, because you have ended a life, rather than just traumatised someone. (Also if you are religious you have just broken a central Commandment in 'Thou shalt not kill.')
It's not your place to take a life and be an executioner. We live in a civilized society and there is a legal process for punishment under the law. Acting outside it makes you a vigilante and if we all did that society breaks down. Not only have you compromised your own soul, but you have participated in the erosion of the social contract.
Alright. You turn the other cheek & allow the pedophile to walk away.
He then goes on to molest 5 more kids, totally destroying their lives and sentencing them to decades of therapy and all sorts of mental & emotional issues.
Do you still feel so good about yourself?
At what point do you become complicit in committing evil by not stopping it when you have the chance and right to?
We live (supposedly) in a society of justice and order. You cant have democracy and civilisaiton if you have lawlessness and vigilante chaos.
If they rape a child they have a fair trial and go to jail if convicted. We need the law to be enforced, is all.