I'll give ya'll some honesty and a confession.
I AM AND ALWAYS WILL BE an animal. Now let me tell you why.
We all have heroes. We strive to be like them, knowing full well and good that most of us will never succeed. Or so we're told.
My daughter's ex boyfriend brought a gun to school here VERY recently, locked, loaded, and ready rock. I have taught my stepchildren well and they have learned well, especially my stepdaughter. She stands 4' 11" tall and weighs about 95 lbs. on a good day. She put here behind on the line for everybody in that classroom when her ex showed her he had that gun. SHE talked him down and got him to take the gun home.
What she told me after we got done talking to the principal made me proud.
She told me in order to save my friends I placed my feet the way you showed me. My body was ready to kill in order to save others. I would have done what was necessary in order to save others. TO make a long story short, she told me she NOW understands why I wake up screaming in the middle of the night and why I have been so hard on them.
EVERYBODY THINKS they understand human nature. THEY ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE.
REMOVE the VERY thin specter of "human society" and see what happens. History is full of that. The only thing that actually separates us from the animal kingdom is a "set of laws" that only work if ALL obey them. IF that doesn't happen, then it becomes survival of the fittest and Darwin will kick in.
So this boy died badly, SO WHAT, and the point is? His victim endured far worse. Remember what the book said, an eye for an eye. We were given both permission and duty to fight evil. Anybody have any questions?