>>81856202>This kid is a sociopathThe rat totally deserved it.
I think the fact that literally every society and culture worldwide for millennia tortured criminals and heretics tells us that it's the human norm to treat what we perceive as wrongdoers horribly. Anglo-American culture pushed back on that, and now we all agree that painful punishments are wrong, but that's a really recent development and it's very contingent on the assumptions of our legal systems. Not enough there to overturn all that history when we're talking about the presumption of normalcy.