Talk:Lexa/@comment-26189128-20150425094958/@comment-26288439-20150429135248

Oh and I left that out that these are probably 3rd, 4th, 5th ?? generation of People living like this. This is their norm, these are their customs. And ofc, it being the norm doesn't make being cruel or revengeful or anything okay, but they grew up in this, and it does feel like justice for them, just as locking up someone who stole or anything does to us.

Furthermore, they had no other example to see. On the Ark, they had stories of the old world, probably books and everything, they knew there is another way. With grounders, all they know is that they live in a world that is the ruins of an old one that they don't know that much about. They were born and since they were kids they were told that if you kill someone (not in battle), you will be killed yourself, in a painful way. They were not thaught that there is another way.

I also left out that they also couldn't really lock people up that well. Obviously, they could, but then what? They either had to feed them, which, considering that food is not as easy to come by, and having to fight for, meant that they would had to work to keep alive some people, who have killed someone else. (And maybe being locked up wasn't so bad then either. You have shelter, you have food, it's better than having to fight for all of that.)

And we don't know how they deal with smaller offenses. Stealing and all that. We have only seen them dealing with two people: Finn and Gustus. In Gustus' case, I think Lexa needed to make a point, that she will go through with executing people who do against the alliance, and that she is not playing favourites just because Gustus was his mentor. With Finn, he didn't steal food, or medicine. I love Finn, and I nearly cried when Clarke killed him, but in the grounders' eyes, he is besically a war-crime...commiter. They were in war, and he came in and massacred 18 innocent people, including children (whose parents, if anyone in this world does, deserve revenge). He was a good guy for long, but for that, he did deserve punishment. And if you fight nature, and the mountain men, and all that to survive every single day of your life, and kill your own people for killing another, killing someone that is not even your people, and murdered 18 innocent people for basically nothing (from their perspective at least), basically spitting on their effort to stay alive for that long, is probably is justice.