Shooting someone, for telling you to given them your wallet, is NOT proportional.
Stabbing someone to death, for trying to mug you at knifepoint, IS proportional.
Stabbing them and dismembering the body afterwards, is NOT proportional.
The main difference, is most European countries have a (mostly) functional police force you can expect to help you deal properly in most conflict situations.
Still, this case "could" be considered proportional if the guy saw the prankster and his friends as potentially assaulting him as a group.
the voices ordered Smith to eat the victim's brain so they would get a better understanding of human behavior and the eyes so that they could see into the "spirit realm."
We've evolved with 14 knuckles on each hand... and a brain that struggles to keep 7 elements at once in operating memory. You can also count up to 1023 with just 10 fingers (in binary). It's not a lack of fingers problem.
Why not? It's not elephant shit, that's so nutritive they steal it directly from each other's source, but aren't jacks kind of horses? Not Holy Cow shit either, but still.
Proportional force.
For example:
The main difference, is most European countries have a (mostly) functional police force you can expect to help you deal properly in most conflict situations.
Still, this case "could" be considered proportional if the guy saw the prankster and his friends as potentially assaulting him as a group.