Imagine a racist murder rampage is widely supported in one area. It’s very natural to want to return the same in kind.
> return the same in kind
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation of this — go and study it!"
Murder is bad. Still, killing 200 people is not equivalent to killing 2 million people.
> return the same in kind
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/689306/jewish...