Talk:Lexa/@comment-26189128-20150425094958/@comment-25176701-20150429004349

"I do not personally agree with execution as a way of punishment, but the Sky People executed people for a lot less than Grounders do?"

Yes, but if you think about it, the Sky People had to execute people often. It was population control so the Ark wouldn't get too populated. Now, I don't agree with executing people for every little crime, however, I do understand the Sky People's point of view. If the Ark became too populated, more Cullings would occur. More INNOCENT people would die. The Ark probably thought: Better the criminals dead than the innocents. Also, life was already hard for the Arkers. They couldn't afford to have trouble makers/criminals around to make it worse. What the Sky People did was not for revenge. When they came to the ground, they realized the did not need to be that strict with people anymore. That's why the crimes committed on the ground were pardoned more often than up in space.

Whereas the Grounders didn't need to execute people. They didn't need to worry about over-population because the air and supplies were plentiful on the ground. They just chose to be savage and brutal and do it, because watching somebody else suffer an extremely painful death will take away their pain away (at least, that's what they think it will do). That was revenge.