> But your comments imply, passive-aggressively, that it was okay to kill the man. <
No, not at all. Please do not put words into my mouth. My point is that when lesser crimes are ignored, really bad things can happen down the road. It’s the “broken windows” theory.
Rudy Giuliani understood all that when he was mayor of New York. And so he was able to clean up the town.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/broken-windows-theory