Talk:To Plea or Not to Plea/@comment-25755332-20150226154647

If we for a second forget everything we know and try to see the problem from an outsider's and from an objective point of view. What could possibly have happened to A, which could justify his/her actions and at the same time we would feel sorry for A?

It's seems like an unsolvable equation. Both scenarios can't really exist at the same time. Either A is a psychopath and then no one would feel sorry for A or A wants revenge, but considering what A has done to people in general I can't think of anything that could justify his/her behaviour even though A appears to have some kind of "motive". Revenge can be justified to a degree, and we would feel sorry for A. The problem is that A has already passed that line, murders, blackmailing etc., there is nothing that can really justify those actions. So the question is, is it a lie that we will feel sorry for A at the end? Because I can't see that happening, considering what A is responsible for. If we are going to feel sorry for A, there has to be a person that is even worse than A. Because this person's heinous actions are the reason the A alias exists in the first place and the person's actions can in some way justifying A's actions. That's the only way to solve the equation and to imagine there's a person even more ruthless person than A, that's a terrifying thought.

We can compare it to act in self-defense. You have the right to act in self-defense and to use violence, if you are in a really bad and dangerous situation. But you don't have the right to use excessive violence, you have the right to use the amount that protects you and that can disarm the other person. You don't have the right to kill someone in a dangerous situation; unless that's the only way you are going to survive. There’s similarities to the A scenario, because there's a difference between revenge and "excessive"/evil revenge. A's revenge and actions have to be equal to the actions A was subjected by the person, for the audience to feel sorry for A and to justify A’s actions. The other scenario is that A is using excessive revenge, which means that A is causing more harm and pain than was never caused to A. In that scenario no one is going to feel sorry for A, because torturing people for years is not revenge. That's being straight up evil and that has nothing to do with neither revenge nor justice.