> What were the circumstances of this magic one-time murder? There's many cases of say, a father going out and murdering their daughter's rapist. It's unlikely

> What were the circumstances of this magic one-time murder? There's many cases of say, a father going out and murdering their daughter's rapist. It's unlikely that they would kill people that aren't raping their daughters, but if you simply let them go free, it really kind of signals that murder is okay as long as you can justify it well enough. Generally the only time we really condone killing someone is when he's defending himself... and sometimes not even then. I do think that putting said person in prison for a period of time is appropriate. No punishment whatsoever is condoning murder. It's just that it's tough to condemn decent people like that to a prison system that is so focused on being terrible for everyone in there. I think prisons need to be a better place to live for all prisoners and the current system simply isn't adequate or reasonable.