Retaliation

I do believe in the motto "If you get hit, hit them back". Now it may not be wise to always retaliate in certain situations, I do believe in the case of rape victims it is neccesary to retaliate. In the chapter 3 of Half the Sky, the thug Akku Yadav went around terrorizing and raping women of the slum to maintain his control. When the women rose against him in the court room, by each stabbing him at least once, it was kind of inspiring. The women made Akku feel the pain he brought on them with his brutally tactics. They knew the law wasn't going to deliver the punishment he deserved and the justice they deserved. In the case of Mary in The Hunt, although the whole situation was more weird than inspiring, I feel like the death of Tehsildar wasn't justifiable. Usha in Half the Sky tried to go to the police and seek justice, but when she saw nothing was going to happen all the women took matters into their own hands. Mary didn't try to seek justice at all, and when he attacked her in Tohri she immediately knew she was going to kill him during the hunt. Mary's murder seemed more brutal and cruel, and she never thought to seek legal justice against him.