Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-99.188.242.29-20150118062143/@comment-25869525-20150118075510

You make a valid point. However, keep in mind they have different cultural mindsets than we have. On the Ark, population pressures led them to coming up with laws that called for the execution of anyone for even the most minor of infractions. And let us be honest, gunning down 18 people is hardly a "minor infraction", whatever reason he may have had. For them, the reasons are unimportant; only the action matters. On the Ark, they WOULD execute someone for stealing a small bit of food to feed a starving child. Here in the USA where I live, at the most the person would get some jail time and a fine, and we can accept that, because we do not have the same circumstances they had aboard the Ark.

As for the Grounder tribes, they are primarily a hunter-getherer-warrior culture. Strict discipline must be maintained, or the tribe will fall apart. While they probably would not execute a person for my previously mentioned example of stealing food to feed a hungry child, they would stil say it WAS stealing, and must be punished for that reason. In their case, something like this would probably be some kind of a harsh beating. But then, Finn did not just steal a meal for a kid. He ended the lives of 18 people. And watever your personal opinions may be on the death penalty, they clearly accept it as necessary.

I'm not saying you are wrong by any means. I'm just saying all of us in our safe homes typung on our computers just do not live in an environment anything like what the characters on the 100 live with.