Concerning the ever-raising violence that we have been attesting lately:
Society seems to be creating a new way of doing violence in a legal (morally accepted) way because the moral behind the reasons weights heavier than the violent act and even completely justify it in the name of common sense. One example is the violence in response to minor crimes, like robbers being tortured and amputated. It's dangerous how people, by no way excluding me, can immediately think that they deserved to be treated with such violence and can't see beyond and behind that seemingly absolute judgement.
Beyond that judgement I can see we are engaged in a competitive, ever-worsening way of relating to eachother, creating separation and at the same time favoring identification with what we possess. People steal by necessity, and that, as a violent act, comes from the same line as the violence against it. The same conditions that made people steal are the same conditions that makes one think that with more violence we can make things even. A very sick way of seeing it if you think about it the slightest. It's important to be aware of all this because the people who do the violence to the criminal is showing a doble moral that shouldn't be favored by any means: they want their rights to be respected while they don't respect or even try to understand others'; you can't be a criminal by committing a (way more severe, if you ask me) crime over a criminal claiming s/he deserves it for being a criminal. Even if at this point some could say it can be justified by saying "The robber violated their rights first" there's no justification for the lack of judgement on their act, which brings on a way bigger problem about good and bad.
Behind all this I can see the figure of a hero being favored all along (and specially explicitly in pop culture: movies, comics...), and which is used as an effective justification for their violent act. It reminds me of charity which, although undoubtedly necessary, isn't making any effort to erase the problem from its roots, meaning finding the source of, say, hunger, which frees the problem-maker (companies, gov. and all that support them) from the responsibility of fixing an obvious problem. Becoming an organ that fixes another's faults will make more problems sooner or later. It can't be compared to violence against violence, tho, since that is a more serious problem, with more moral value behind and beyond it. So the figure of a hero seems to be morally accepted by now, which is bringing violence to a "normal" status, which is very dangerous. As the saying goes: "Eye for an eye and the world goes blind", except this violence has a moral support strong enough to take limbs for a good.