Is killing a witch always a bad thing?

[Drich]

There are no real witches, just sad deluded people who think that mumbling rubbish and performing stupid rituals can in some way influence things they couldn't possibly influence.

Sometimes the rituals are quite gross and horrific, in some countries albino body parts are supposed to be powerful so the stupid mother fuckers kidnap and kill albinos.

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/30/165643518/...-of-attack

But witches are no more dangerous than other religiously motivated people when they get these ideas in their heads. The persecution and torture of innocent people in the mistaken belief they were witches can be readily laid at the foot of christianity.

Maybe this is the problem, "a real witch" is anyone (benign or fanatical) who practices the religion of witchcraft. Not someone who must have access to demonic or 'dark' powers.

Which opens reality to a whole lot of people in this day and age and in days past. My question asks is one ever justified in killing one of these people?

Remember witches are people and like all people 'we' are as dangerous as we want to be.