Completely agree.
What he did wasn’t human, but that doesn’t mean we should celebrate violence. If we condone that kind of violence and celebrate it as I see so many people do here, we help to create a society in which this kind of thing can happen again. Because we create a society where violent thoughts and actions are celebrated and normalized. We create a culture where violence is validated as a legitimate form of justice, and cruelty and brutality is never a tool we should use or condone because we are not psychopaths or animals.
Likewise, I’m an SA survivor and feel absolutely furious when I see people wish for rapists to be raped themselves in a kind of ‘karmic justice’. In fact, some people seem to view it as a justifiable, moral act. It physically repels me. Because it makes rape a heroic act, where in reality, rape should never ever happen. To anyone. Ever, including to rapists, because as a society we are better than that. We do not torture others, even when they ‘deserve’ it because that means that we are still committing acts of torture.
We shouldn’t condone his murder or torture not because he doesn’t ‘deserve’ it but because we are not psychopaths like him. We shouldn’t take pleasure in imagining another persons pain because it takes us that one step closer to him, and we want to be as far away as possible from that way of thinking. I am disgusted and sickened by him, and I personally don’t want to be anything like him.
obviously we should never forgive him, this isn’t a ‘oooh let him off the hook’. He’s a torturer and murderer. But I personally don’t wish him pain because I do not want to be the kind of person who enjoys the infliction of pain onto others. I do not want to be the kind of person who makes light of pain being inflicted onto others. Because from my own experience, the person who assaulted me made light of my pain and enjoyed my pain, and I do not want to be anything like that person.
Furthermore, I agree with your point about the prison system. Just because we find Sara’s killer repulsive doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be sickened by a system that allows a human being’s throat to be slit. That is fucking horrible. The men who slit his throat aren’t ‘heroes’ they’re sadistic torturers and it’s frankly disturbing that they could do that to another person.