Is it irrational to want a prison sentence for the agents who seized and executed the little squirrel? Someone needs to be accountable for this horrible act of mean behavior. And that is what this was -- being mean for the sake of being mean.
it's emotionally rational, i think. It's like hoping someone crashes their car after you see them throw a bag of food out the window. The punishment doesn't REALLY fit the crime, but the act being so unquestionably mindless and selfish seems to require punishment or correction in some sort. Even if the harm, at least in my example, is minor.
Is it irrational to want a prison sentence for the agents who seized and executed the little squirrel? Someone needs to be accountable for this horrible act of mean behavior. And that is what this was -- being mean for the sake of being mean.
it's emotionally rational, i think. It's like hoping someone crashes their car after you see them throw a bag of food out the window. The punishment doesn't REALLY fit the crime, but the act being so unquestionably mindless and selfish seems to require punishment or correction in some sort. Even if the harm, at least in my example, is minor.