Here's the thing β a civilization that cannot come up with the moral testicularity to execute a creature who murders over a dozen of its children is a civilization in serious trouble. The minimum standard for any culture that intends on surviving β and surviving means dealing with the barbarians within and without β is to take its own side in the fight for survival. Eventually, there will be a backlash. The only question is how ugly it will be.
This injustice in the Sunshine State β appropriately deplored by Governor DeSantis β is a symptom of the larger problem. You see it manifested across our culture β suicidal tolerance and performative forgiveness. In places like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and other blue cities β it is always blue cities β the inhabitants murder each other with glee. But more than that, they generally act like savages. We have all seen the videos. Random creeps menacing citizens on the subways, packs of thugs raiding convenience stores or shopping malls, pitched battles between groups of aspiring Einsteins in Walmarts, animals cold-cocking citizens who are simply minding their own business. But no one stops them. No one holds them to account. The cops' shrug, because the blue politicians have told them to stand down. The answer to those of us who protest is always the same β shut up, racist, and also give us your guns so that you cannot defend yourself from what the government refuses to suppress.
And then there is the spectacle of family members of murder victims "forgiving" the criminals as if forgiveness was a simple act and not a process that demands action by the person being forgiven. This bizarre misunderstanding of Christianity is mixed with what seems to be a desire to front to the world as somehow enlightened β "I want to announce that I forgive the barbarians who raped and murdered my daughter. They did not repent, they did not seek forgiveness, and they have not yet been punished, but Iβll do it now anyway. Look at me." Not that you want to take theological hints from a guy who grew up a Californian Methodist, but the forgiveness of God does not just manifest out of the blue; the one receiving grace needs to take steps to obtain it. These moral posers β and it is posing, sad and horrifying, but posing nonetheless β demand nothing to obtain forgiveness, so the forgiveness they offer is meaningless narcissism.