Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.