{"id":167,"date":"2012-10-17T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=167"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:18:09","slug":"28-retaliation-striking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"28. Retaliation: Striking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"ThreeRs08\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThreeRs08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThreeRs08.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThreeRs08-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f4c5e599a951003398269' value='69f4c5e599a951003398269'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f4c5e599a951003398269' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f4c5e599a951003398269' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f4c5e599a951003398269' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 5: The Three &#8216;R&#8217;s<br \/>Page 8: Retaliation<\/p>\n<p>Retaliation is not about balance or fairness. We&#8217;re talking about VENGEANCE, here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe stabbing a guy in the back with a big knife<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Little more than the emotional drive to simply hurt those who have hurt us.<\/p>\n<p>All that matters is that you hurt someone, you hurt society, and so society is gonna hurt you right back.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an animal instinct, protective and immediate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Momma tiger protecting her cubs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t like to talk about it. And nobody ever brings it up as a factor at sentencing. But it would be dishonest to ignore it.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f4c5e599a951003398269' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,13,11,6,10,14,12,15],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-eye-for-an-eye","tag-incapacitation","tag-punishment","tag-removal","tag-retaliation","tag-retribution","tag-vengeance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}