I didn’t see the show, but your claim of circular logic isn’t even accurate. If it was “they were murdered because they were bad and you can tell they’re bad because they were murdered” that’d be circular. In this case maybe your concern is hypocrisy or double standards, but “I can do bad thing to bad man cuz bad man is bad” is the cornerstone of our justice system.
It’s seen as bad to punch people. If someone is punching you and punching them back will get them to stop, generally most people would think it’s ok to punch them back. That doesn’t mean punching is good. It means that sometimes doing a bad thing (punching people) may be need and does not always make you bad as an individual.
Unless you are a complete pacifist and against self defense of any kind (including restricting freedom of movement such as imprisonment), I’m not really sure why you’d disagree.
Doing bad things to bad people does not make you good, but it doesn’t make you inherently bad.
I didn’t see the show, but your claim of circular logic isn’t even accurate. If it was “they were murdered because they were bad and you can tell they’re bad because they were murdered” that’d be circular. In this case maybe your concern is hypocrisy or double standards, but “I can do bad thing to bad man cuz bad man is bad” is the cornerstone of our justice system.
I, good person, can do bad things to bad person. You disagree? You must be bad person.
Good person do bad thing to bad person because bad person is bad person. I’m not simplifying how this is circular logic any further.
It’s seen as bad to punch people. If someone is punching you and punching them back will get them to stop, generally most people would think it’s ok to punch them back. That doesn’t mean punching is good. It means that sometimes doing a bad thing (punching people) may be need and does not always make you bad as an individual.
Unless you are a complete pacifist and against self defense of any kind (including restricting freedom of movement such as imprisonment), I’m not really sure why you’d disagree.
Doing bad things to bad people does not make you good, but it doesn’t make you inherently bad.