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Originally Posted by Fire
If someone commited a violent, evil act on me, I would not feel bad about doing something bad and violent to them- I would not rape someone who raped me, for instance, but I would surely shoot them dead without loosing sleep- and as to reasonable proportion, I feel that what they did and then a little more should be about right- this is meant to deter people who hurt others, so a little more visited on the perp seems like a good idea.
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