Basically, Good always comes from the effort of reordering Evil, and Evil always returns from the effort of disordering Good. Good rejoices when Evil is conquered, but laments that such efforts are the basis upon which all Good exists. Human Weakness can only be made strong when this natural law is practiced and reinforced by doing so.
It's ghastly, but it's pretty much a human universal to draw entertainment out of the deaths of 'bad guys'. That is not an ancient Roman tradition. It was only abolished in Europe in the 1800s, and this was not due to popular demand. It was actually a 'progressive reform' imposed on people from the top down.
From a normative perspective, we _should_ not ever be drawing entertainment or joy out of someone being killed. And from an optics perspective, the downsides of that are obvious. But from a positive description of how humans actually are, people observably do _not_ treat death that way, absent social pressure
Ouch. That hits home a bit more than I'd like.
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Basically, Good always comes from the effort of reordering Evil, and Evil always returns from the effort of disordering Good. Good rejoices when Evil is conquered, but laments that such efforts are the basis upon which all Good exists. Human Weakness can only be made strong when this natural law is practiced and reinforced by doing so.
For an alternative perspective, check out Dan Carlin's episode about public executions.
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-painfotainment/
It's ghastly, but it's pretty much a human universal to draw entertainment out of the deaths of 'bad guys'. That is not an ancient Roman tradition. It was only abolished in Europe in the 1800s, and this was not due to popular demand. It was actually a 'progressive reform' imposed on people from the top down.
From a normative perspective, we _should_ not ever be drawing entertainment or joy out of someone being killed. And from an optics perspective, the downsides of that are obvious. But from a positive description of how humans actually are, people observably do _not_ treat death that way, absent social pressure
Great point
A justifiable homicide is not as tragic as a culpable homicide.
The whole reason a justifiable homicide is justifiable is that it avoids an even more tragic outcome.
True, it's just that some people seem to go beyond that and celebrate it.