I have met monsters in the guise of men face to face and many times violence is the only way of dealing with them, be they overseas or here in and Smalltown or Big City. While anyone with an ounce of self preservation and respect for life wishes for viable alternatives to violence to "NOT (be) comforted by the fact there are people who are ready to commit violence" is naieve at best and arrogantly egotistical at worst. However, such an attitude is proof that such people should be thankful - not only for those anonymous "others" but for never having been thrust into the watershed moment of having to make such a decision on a first hand basis. Oh that we could all return to such innocence and never truly know what others are capable of, or what we can - and often must - do in return.