Chapter 69 Unforgivable

I believe that many people, like me, have thought about a question: Do ordinary people have the right to bypass the law and punish evil deeds?Even excessive punishment? Clint Eastwood's film "Unforgiven" has the answer with a sinking face.In the film, a violent cowboy disfigures a prostitute with a knife, causing her to hang by a thread, and she can only do hard labor from then on. , only sentenced him to pay seven horses.So, the victimized woman and her partner used their hard-earned flesh and blood money to pool up a thousand dollars and hired a killer to kill the cowboy.In the end, the killer not only killed the cowboy, but even bought one and got five free, sending the sheriff and his minions to the west together.

Why would they rather bankrupt the entire town and kill the cowboys?Because the law punishes evil, but it cannot punish evil.And evil deeds are often just a result of persistent evil.In the troubled times and prehistoric times, there is not even a law, and the judgment is all based on the magistrate's nonsense, and the judgment he makes is greatly discounted compared with the seriousness of the crime.Moreover, this punishment was not executed in the end, because the magistrate, representing the authority, had already received satisfaction from the sentence.Even, he may have the same element of evil as the cowboy, so he unconsciously wants to protect the evil, make big things small, and get things done hastily.So the women must start the lynching and the cowboys must be killed.For them, they are not punishing a certain evil, but punishing evil.What they are unwilling to forgive is not this evil deed, but the environment that breeds evil and condones evil.Therefore, they would rather let the punishment exceed the scope of the evil deeds, but also carry the punishment to the end.

Moderation can only survive in a moderate environment, rationality needs continuous rationality to water, and when miracles abound around, and all people and things are strange, when evil is always sheltered, and the evil way becomes a common way, And when there is generally no effective punishment, people have to tend to go to extremes and use extremist methods to release emotions and solve problems.A crime is excessively punished, not necessarily because of the degree of evil it reaches, but because it tends to arouse long-stored extreme emotions. "Beating the thief to death" is a typical expression of this extreme emotion. Among all kinds of legal and illegal violations, the result that the thief can cause is almost the lightest.The thief is also the weakest, but he can easily become a vent for the anger that the masses have accumulated for a long time, and become a scapegoat for all crimes that the masses cannot punish.Therefore, when searching for "killing a thief" on Baidu, there are 1,960,000 results. Villagers are killing thieves, anti-pickup volunteers are killing thieves, college students are killing thieves, security guards are killing thieves, a city In the first three months of last year, five thieves were killed.

And the women in "Unforgivable", more than a hundred years ago, probably in such an extreme life, quietly decided to get along with their surroundings in an extreme way, unforgive, unforgive, because they Never been forgiven and appeased.