Can i just forgive people and move on with life?
No.
For example, The Mu‘tazila rationalized that any faá¸l (mercy) exercised by God was a violation of justice and incompatible with His nature.
Many Islamic apologists have spoken about this topic in scholarly depth, but i seek not to speak about theology but the real.
This analogy serves as a reason as to why I cannot just have mercy when such a cardinal transgression has taken place. To use another theological analogy, it's like Shirk in the eyes of Allah.
So what then must this punishment look like if I have previously referred to it as lex talionis? It will be just that, an equal retribution... You kill Me and I kill you.
Except it has been expanded by the philosophical extremity of my mind. They have blinded something they know not, that being themselves... Themselves have become as strangers and I shall seek to rectify this crime of blinding an innocent.
I must deliver due punishment, I cannot pardon this shirk. The reality which I have presented is Godly, yet people have associated their own ideals with it and worshipped them... This is shirk. It's haram.