honestly giving victims some sense of closure and catharsis isn’t a bad idea, especially if you were just gonna kill the guy anyway. the alternative is letting hatred stew in a generalized sense, which leads to entrenched unresolved grudges with no real target. toxic mindsets and bigotry result if you don’t link a crime with a specific individual and stress the importance of individual consequences for those actions. it’s not “an orc killed my friend”, it’s “this one specific orc killed my friend, and i killed his ass right back, so my friend can rest in peace now”.
haurva
honestly giving victims some sense of closure and catharsis isn’t a bad idea, especially if you were just gonna kill the guy anyway. the alternative is letting hatred stew in a generalized sense, which leads to entrenched unresolved grudges with no real target. toxic mindsets and bigotry result if you don’t link a crime with a specific individual and stress the importance of individual consequences for those actions. it’s not “an orc killed my friend”, it’s “this one specific orc killed my friend, and i killed his ass right back, so my friend can rest in peace now”.