Tcat said
People who receive the death penalty can be said to have provoked society to anger, and society kills them in that rage so to speak.
You are wrong here, Tcat. Such things are never to be decided in anger or in rage. Such would be a grave sin against justice.
... In the case of harassment I feel, perhaps it is up to the judgement of the person being harassed as to whether they feel commissioned by God to punish the offender with death, and ensure that the harassment stops.
If you were being martyred, would you be justified in killing your tormentor? Nobody is commissioned by God to kill. Maybe an executioner could be commissioned by his government to kill, or a soldier might be commissioned to defend his country but that is not quite the same thing as being commissioned by God.
IF still has not explained what he means by harassment, but harassment is not something Catholics kill for.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/harassmentha·rass (h-rs, hrs)
tr.v.ha·rassed, ha·rass·ing, ha·rass·es
1. To irritate or torment persistently.
2. To wear out; exhaust.
3. To impede and exhaust (an enemy) by repeated attacks or raids.
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[French harasser, possibly from Old French harer, to set a dog on, from hare, interj. used to set a dog on, of Germanic origin.]
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ha·rasser n.
ha·rassment n.
Synonyms: harass, harry, hound, badger, pester, plague
These verbs mean to trouble persistently or incessantly. Harass and harry imply systematic persecution by besieging with repeated annoyances, threats, or demands: The landlord harassed tenants who were behind in their rent. A rude customer had harried the storekeeper.
Hound suggests unrelenting pursuit to gain a desired end: Reporters hounded the celebrity for an interview.
To badger is to nag or tease persistently: The child badgered his parents for a new bicycle.
To pester is to inflict a succession of petty annoyances: "How she would have pursued and pestered me with questions and surmises" (Charlotte Brontë).
Plague refers to a problem likened to an epidemic disease: "As I have no estate, I am plagued with no tenants or stewards" (Henry Fielding).