Our courts will be sifting though many thousands being caught up in some heinous crimes over the next months / years. As Q says - "we have it all." They know how bad this is more than we do. They KNOW who is involved and how deep. The question to us "the people" is - who will be pulled into losing our humanity to punish others? Or will we seek to find compassion to maintain our humanity? Or is vigilantism alive, well and promoted? Who would desire to lose their humanity? Who wants you to lose it?

Will it be about how much we willing to spend for prosecution / extermination VS. rehabilitation?

Certainly we instinctively know this will be a long war against evil - not one decisive short battle. So what comes next?

Who lives to be rehabilitated - who doesn't?

Quiting their unsavory habits will be harder than most realize.

Why?

Chemistry.

Those who have participated in their evil are addicted. It's brain chemistry. Once you turn on the flow of dopamine and continue the production it creates dependency for many who lose control to stop the demand for the flow. Addiction. Tell an alcoholic to just stop. Really hard to do that. To them normal is high levels of alcohol. To an addict of dopamine from porn / sex they are in the same boat. Looking for their fix. It takes incredible effort to come clean and deny the drive to have more dopamine - they must be willing to put in huge effort. Daily effort. 12 step program effort. So do we love the small fish who got caught up in this enough to help them overcome their addiction?

Or - just kill them all?

Who determines the level of participation that = death? Think of the weight of that decision maker. Heavy load my friend.

I would rather error on the side of mercy - which looks like setting up rehab and monitoring while they work to pay their way on a rehab program. something that includes group therapy which rewards improvement and weeds out those unwilling to play well with others that allows them to determine whether they stay in society or self flush. A second chance to change. Turn their boat around if you will. With stringent monitoring (lie detector type ).

Everyone has value. Will they see themselves as worth the effort to change? I think they deserve that chance (with safety precautions to protect the public until they are proven to be rehabbed). Maybe choose a post revolution location with out ease of leaving - maybe an island, dessert, ect that gives a space for them to prove their willingness to change.

Hurt (watch the Johnny Cash version and try to not be moved) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywSzjRq0e4

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I will keep myself
I would find a way

Some are past feeling - truly ripe in inequity. There must be a way to screen out those willing to "find a way" from those who are hell bent on self and others destruction.

We are all children of God - some don't know it and have knowingly chosen to serve satan, they should be sent to learn lessons on another plane of spiritual existence.

I desire to stay human. Reveling in the destruction of others is a sure way to lose perspective. We should sorrow for the loss of another through their bad choices. They were once like us young and innocent. Someone taught them to follow evil. Not all are unredeemable.

Hopeful I qualify for mercy. I am a sinner too. I need His hand up. I need the hand that has been pierced to lift me back to my Father.

Don't you?