Mostly no, but what about serial killers, like Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, Ken Bianci - Hillside Strangler, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy, to name a few? They tortured and killed, sometimes young girls. It's hard to let that go.
You mean it is difficult to put aside our anger and demand justice/revenge. I used to think like that. One of the problems I ran into is that I felt so angry that it caused me to have pain in my chest. When I finally noticed it I decided that I did not want to feel like that. Then I had to ask myself why I felt that way.
It was because, during my childhood and as a young adult, I had been taught that it was OK to be righteously angry. "These people are evil. It is my duty to be angry". My self righteous anger at these times could turn into a violent rage. It we are taught to be angry that is what we practice.
One day I was driving to work a woman cut me off in from a merge lane. She damn near hit my car. Only missed it by about 3 inches. I was in an immediate rage. I chased her car. I was going to cut her off and see how she liked it. After a few miles of anger and rage I finally got to work and calmed down. And I noticed that uncomfortable feeling in my chest. I hated that feeling. It made me feel sad. I wasn't afraid of a heart attack. But that dull pain was something I hated.
The next morning I was fine, I was again driving to work. I wasn't upset. But when I hit that place where she cut me off the inner conversation started and by the time I got to work I had had her hanged and dragged around behind a car and hanged again. And there was the chest pain. This went on for a few weeks because I am a man and naturally stupid. I was triggered every time I hit that location I was starting the inner conversation.
So the next time, when I hit that spot I noticed myself becoming angry. I began to talk to myself and I yelled at myself to stop. I felt the chest pain immediately. It took me weeks of driving across that place, having to stop my anger and give myself the reminder that I had to change my feelings If I did not want to hurt inside.
After a while of having the conscious awareness to stop my feelings and get off, it worked. I drove past that place one morning and did not have the anger any longer. I realized right then that I had been giving myself permission to be angry, but all during my life I had been doing just that. During my childhood my parents modeled their "righteous anger" so I learned it was OK to be angry with people. This shaped my interaction with people. "Don't cross me or I will come after you."
This one episode changed my life. From that time to this I have live a peaceful life. I have serenity because I stopped my anger. I no longer hate people because I feel that they did me wrong. I no longer hate politicians because they are evil. I am not perfect I will sometimes take it back, but I will notice eventually and stop it once more. And I no longer have that pain in my chest.
I no longer hate people like serial killers because without my anger I can see how mentally ill these people are. I am sad for them. I understand that these people had so much anger in their lives they killed people in the most terrible of ways. Someone likely abused them for years.
Do I think these people should go free? No, of course not. I think that they should be locked up for the rest of their lives. I doubt if these people can be redeemed. I would offer them the chance to commit suicide. They could be in an enormous amount of pain. Ultimately, mental illness or not I would recommend execution for society's sake. I would do none of this out of anger.
