I’ve asked - myself and others, many times - how is it that more people don’t go after people who have assailed their family members? My most recent mental exercise led me to this: the cops get to them first, and hold them long enough that the potential vigilante has time to reflect upon what else they and their family have to lose, plus the attorneys convince them that justice is on the way. And by the time (months or a year later) they are found not-guilty, the person has sufficiently processed the loss, such that they won’t do anything “crazy”.
I agree with you 100% that letting him out was not only morally wrong but impractical, and thus you get…what we got, which is even more danger and loss.
The other thing I learned is, if you’re going to risk your whole life this way, you have to plan better. Granted, that is hard to do in that state of mind. Very sad all around.
I’ve asked - myself and others, many times - how is it that more people don’t go after people who have assailed their family members? My most recent mental exercise led me to this: the cops get to them first, and hold them long enough that the potential vigilante has time to reflect upon what else they and their family have to lose, plus the attorneys convince them that justice is on the way. And by the time (months or a year later) they are found not-guilty, the person has sufficiently processed the loss, such that they won’t do anything “crazy”.
I agree with you 100% that letting him out was not only morally wrong but impractical, and thus you get…what we got, which is even more danger and loss.
The other thing I learned is, if you’re going to risk your whole life this way, you have to plan better. Granted, that is hard to do in that state of mind. Very sad all around.