Your understanding of the situation is incomplete, Diarmuid. Were it only those like our serial killer who we had to concern ourselves with, there would be no conflict sufficient to splinter our community and cause blood to spill. However, the fact remains that while most of us agree about what is evil, far fewer of us agree concerning what is good.

This murderer... when he is caught, we'll have no justice to bring him to. Can we really all come to an agreement concerning what justice is in mere days -- perhaps even mere hours? And even were we to do so, would that agreement reflect the truth?