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SeptemberMorn said:
So there's no room in your life for righteous anger?... I see absolutely nothing wrong with wanting punishment for these most vile of theives.

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Righteous anger is one thing. WANTING punishment is one thing. They are feelings, and healthy ones in many respects, I think. Carrying them out is another thing. IMO. Necessary separation of offenders from others is different from punishment.

Some of us, I dare to say, have experienced torture in various forms from members of our own families. One of mine appeared to me to want to kill me. Her hatred, at least as it appeared to my child's mind, was so great that even now I feel sometimes as though maybe she was right, and that I should die. Others' condemnations of me have had the same effect. Maybe they are right. If I accepted their apparent judgements of me I would be dead.

Sometimes I feel so angry at those people I think I could kill them. Sometimes I wish I had. After I let myself feel my anger, I cool, and grow in understanding of even those who have made me feel so demeaned.

I have seen what people (including me) can do under pressure. As the saying is, there but for the grace of God go I.