[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Again you are talking about what armies did. This was an individual who committed a revenge murder. Individuals have a right to self defense. They do not have a right to vengeance.

[ought-six]

“Individuals have a right to self defense. They do not have a right to vengeance.”

If the barbarians had slaughtered — and I mean slaughtered in the true sense of the word — one of your loved ones, I suspect you’d exact some vengeance.