You know, there are always situations that can be posed to make any normal person here vengeful. A man violated a small child. A woman who has falsely accused someone of rape or molestation. If my child was harmed, I would take payment myself if I could. I have seen firsthand what false accusations of sexual harassment can do to a man's career.
The long and the short of it is that once we start thinking of ourselves as judge, jury and executioner, we cross a line that we really don't want to cross. You can't un-ring that particular bell and for one don't want to live in a society where everyone gets to decide where that line is. Therein lies chaos.
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Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves
were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, this guilt nevertheless did not exist.
Thus it is with all guilt.
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