Diogenetic
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Friend, most of me totally agrees with you. And I am not even sure I am against retributive justice. The ancient idea of restoring balance that has been upset by such heinous crimes. I won't be deeply troubled if this guy gets the death penalty.the short answer is that he cannot live among us because he cannot, or will not, play by the rules of society.
I sometimes think that there was a more primitive time in history when killing- predatory animals, hostile tribe members, etc.,- was a more valued activity and these people's "talents" were more useful to society- so they are just a throwback to a different time- but I am not sure if history really supports that.
I just don't think it is irrational, nor should it be impossible for us to know two different ideas, two very different ways of seeing this, can in fact be rationally entertained in our minds, at least as we seek to understand in order to prevent.
And you do make a very astute observation on having people who can exert violence has a value and is likely part of our revolutionary experimenting.. One example of that would be testosterone level in human males. It has a LOT of costs and benefits. It is why chimpanzee groups have beta males actually dominate by use of coalitions against alpha males. Teh alphas are functional in attacking other groups, but need to re kept down within the group (great reads on this are "demonic males" and the "goodness paradox by Jane Goodall's protégé Richard Wrangham).
But I think this is not so much mainly about this guy being that being about that. I think if we were to look at his brain with 2050 technology we would see a number of key areas degraded.