Overkill culture

This culture encourages us to "go the extra mile" to prove our loyalty and passion to a cause by double-punishing our enemies for whatever terrible (or even not so terrible) things they did. It's rub-it-in culture, AKA "hammer them with it until they react and thus prove they feel terrible" culture. It's "add further insult and injury to insult and injury" culture, "hang em high" culture, zero-tolerance-for-common-sense culture, "moderation is for sissies" culture. Dreaded death at midnight culture, lonely death at dawn culture, "make sure they don't get their hands on any drugs before we execute them" culture. A culture of aggravating one's opponent's issues... often issues that made him behave in the offending (or dehumanizing, maybe deadly) way in the first place. Of then using their reaction to that aggravation as evidence they were scum to begin with. (The terms "bad seed" and "pathologically" are very dehumanizing, and thus inaccurate. That is never the extent of what is going on at all. Our experiences are not pathology and neither is our sentience. We are not pathology... no part of us is.)

Restitution-with-compounded-interest culture. 

A culture of continuing to stab them after they are long dead, often in anger but also often to make a show to third parties out of how awful they were and how we object so violently to it, and how we are therefore so very different from them, so very much the opposite. "Look at me, I'm moral, because he's not and I'm better than him" culture. Enforced "Don't hurt me, I'm on your side" culture. "I'll prove my loyalty to you by hurting your opponent" culture. A culture of wanting to be popular and of being FORCED to feel unsafe if we aren't... if we don't take a violent stand against whatever or whoever to show our loyalty to the culture. A culture of conditional love and conditional understanding, of fear that one will lose all of one's friends-- and never meet or make any better ones after-- unless one shows their indignation at a common enemy by overkilling him. 

A culture of "I only deserve comfort for losing a loved one if I show intense, extreme hatred for someone involved in their death." A culture of no one noticing the pain of a person who lost someone they loved unless and until they come onto the scene angry and destructive.

A culture of "Look at me, I'm the opposite of this violent person because I executed him and now I'm still stabbing him including by running my mouth about how the world is better off without him." A lot of this is genuine anger at the violent person's disgusting unforgivable actions. And some more of it is society telling us that we're just like that person if we don't "take a stand" against them by continuing to harass their remains and their memory and whatever you believe about their soul, AFTER the execution.

A culture of "there's only 2 types of people... them and us." Or of "there's only one type of people... us... and everyone else aren't people."

A culture of "I was never in his situation-- oh, and never mind the specifics of the situation, they're irrelevant because I say they are-- but if it was me I'd have let them kill me rather than kill them in self-defense. But oh, she killed in self-defense so she deserves the death penalty even if we don't know what actually happened.. what other options she might never have had. Because we need to make an example out of her to save men's lives in the future from women who do murder their abusers and then pretend it's self defense."

The culture of 0% or 100% and no mark in between, of all or nothing and black and white. Of pegging a person or their behavior as one or the other and never as the good we all are and the mixture that each and every one of us presents and behaves as.

The culture of "they will, need to, and deserve to burn in hell in utter literal agony forever for a temporary crime." This particular part of it just reeks of a lack of belief that the murderer's victim is in heaven and not suffering to that extent themself right now, and that the victim isn't already getting reassured and thereby compensated in heaven with the knowledge that one day their murderer will realize what he did and care that they did that, and treat their victim like the person their victim is from now on that the victim always was and deserved to be treated as. 

So much for religious values. What's the point in believing in hell more than heaven?

They need their comeuppance, but not in the way we often think. And we always pay for the extent of our overkill.