I’m all for sympathetic treatment. But, isn’t this how they promote accountability for others? Maybe this is the only way they learn anything. Otherwise, the next time a fascist is promising to hurt people they don’t like, they’re just going to trust them and vote then in again. And then we’re in a cycle. We’ve been building to it for decades now. What breaks that cycle? How do we get through to them? We can be better than them by not hunting them down and actively wanting harm. And by making sure they don’t starve to death as they lose everything. Some lessons need costs. I don’t know for certain that this is the way but compassion seems to come without memory.