Where do they get this namby-pamby crap anyways? Who says Mr. Pontolillo will have any remorse? I certainly wouldn't. The burglar wasn't some rebellious teenage kid running with a bad crowd. He was a 49 year-old career criminal who had just been released from prison the previous Saturday.
I just for the life of me can't see how I'd feel any pangs of guilt in removing him from the street. If anything, I'd feel relieved that the streets are just a little bit safer now (and I'd probably feel an important need to watch my back for a while).
“He was a 49 year-old career criminal who had just been released from prison the previous Saturday.”
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Bears repeating!
BTTT
The origin of the remorse can come from your close friends and your relatives. If they preceive the incident as one that had no other recourse, there isn’t any remorse. If the burglar was of a young age or if there was any doubt in anyone’s mind that something else could have been done, that’s where the remorse sets in.
There is also a fear in dreams of alternate endings. It’s the burglar who has the sword. It’s that second of delay where there’s a fight to the finish and it goes badly.
All of the remorse can be avoided by strong support by friends and family. Employees of the media need not apply.
You'd be surprised - my cousin shot the son-in-law who was beating his pregnant daughter (not even a thought of charges being filed) and had a very difficult time living with having taken even such a worthless life as that.
I've never killed a man, but I know a cop who has a couple times. In both cases, the deceased were scum bag career criminals who had to be killed in order to save either himself or his partner. Dispite this, after each killing, he was haunted for months with feelings of guilt.
Killing is psychologically difficult for most normal people no matter how righteous and justified it happens to be.