The intention was not to hit that guy, and I said the execution was off but you can see how that happened.
If I go to hit someone, snd he ducks and I hit you, it's an accident...but you still got hit.
In the military they call it collateral damage.
But you're asking all of society to accept their status as collateral damage because a terrible wrong has been committed.
And it's not because there are no other options. Cain could so easily have followed these guys to their destination and handled it there, privately. No problems. There is no need for collateral damage and we're not in the military.
If I want to punch you and I choose to do it a senior citizen's bingo hall, when I could have chosen before or after the event in a different location, and I miss you and kill an old lady instead.... do I expect her family to say "well yeah, he ducked so grandma got killed. The execution was off but I can see how that happened, grandma was just collateral damage"??
If you expect ppl to feel this way, you will come to learn that MOST ppl don't feel this way. MOST of us want to feel safe when we walk the streets. If you tell me there's a pedo in my neighbourhood I'll say "no shit, sherlock, there are thousands of ppl here - for sure SOME of them are pedos". But if you tell me there will be shooting outside on a street corner in the next 5 days, I'm going to be watching my back and every situation on high alert for 5 days.
Most ppl want society to become safer, not more on high alert and worrying about getting shot. You may be more in the "I'm willing to die so that a random person gets revenge that is very well deserved" camp. And that's fine. But most humans aren't into that. We are mostly looking for safe areas for our kids to grow up and live.
I was always on the lookout for pedos when my kids were young. My gf doesn't even let her daughters visit any friend who has an older brother or father at home. If she knows the father personally and well, she may make an exception. Her girls only visit friends who have no males expected to be in the home. That's because we're in the "no shit, sherlock, there are pedos out there" camp.
So we are NOT pro pedo!
But we're not willing to get shot at any intersection because pedos exist either. There is LOTS of middle ground to explore between these two extremes.