I think revenge only has value as revenge if it comes from the victim.
'Evil' is kinda stupid
And 'removing' is what you so when you can't fix. Like, don't replace if you can recycle. If youre just murdering everyone who you don't like, I think that's bad.
They want up front street viole!ce and glorious dead in pretty dressed up funerals.
Don't give it to them, but don't be peaceful either
Take them alive. Make what's done to them very visible humiliate them. Maim them. Give them something to be afraid of. Or give them a nice hot meal and negotiate for prisoners to be released, for withdrawal from cities, for total police disarming, for fucking whatever.
With what money? They own the means of 'nonviolent' change enforced by men with guns. There is one solution. They must die. Unless you own an oil company or something.
I think the value of punishment is in empowering the victim or making an example.
The value to the victim in punishment is in reclaiming agency. If the state punishes someone, the victim gets nothing. It's a waste. Maybe less than a waste; the opportunity for personal revenge for a personal wrong is lost.
Some things will not be deterred by consequences, imposed or otherwise, and the victim can't/won't take agency from revenge, so punishing them is absurd.
Sometimes you just need a fucker gone. Nazis and stuff. It's not about punishment, unless you're trying to deter. It's about not having that in the world and being unable or unwilling to spend the resources to fix the problem in a more wholesome way.
Even then, is the value worth the cost? The mechanisms of organized punishment and deprivation existing? The culture of interpersonal violence? Generally no. But the discourse about 'crime' ignores literally fucking all of this.
Its a matter of power, not crimes though. Grab Adolf Hitler when he's just some asshole homeless guy who likes to draw badly, and he's probably still gonna be an asshole, but you could totally make him a non-bigoted asshole.
Grab him in the bunker, its not worth it, and killing him has a lot more value to the world than his meth addled ass ever could.
Is there something else we should be doing to them?
Before they kill us, I mean? Or while?