#like i couldn't fundamentally disagree with his thirst for revenge and justice but also i just felt so wrong seeing him do all that

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the issue begins when you begin to see an entire group of people as subhuman--even if they're on the side of objective wrong. if you see all bad people as subhuman, you're less likely to notice your own self turning into someone as cruel as them--because those people aren't human right? they're a bunch of freaks and monsters and offsprings of the devil. they all want us dead. they rejoice in our suffering. and nothing i can say or do is going to make me like that, because i am human.

before you know it, you're becoming them. it starts with wanting them dead then it goes onto wanting anyone who's associated with them dead and ultimately you become so obsessed with the act of hurting the cruel mass murderers that you completely forget you started this with the intention of protecting people who are vulnerable to being cruelly mass murdered.

and that's how you go from feeling repulsed at seeing your best friend come to the defence of her naive overprivileged prep team to creating a bomb that it kills off her sister, a girl you loved like a sister yourself, a girl you fed and protected.

the issue isn't wanting a bunch of genocidal people dead, it's when you become so obsessed with wanting them dead you forget that there are people in the crossfires, people with lives at stake, people who are going to become collateral damage in your thirst for revenge.

it's not unfair to want revenge. but it's not right to hurt people who are as much victims of the actions of horrible people as you are.