Maybe you miss the point of justice and mercy and see it ony as a dichotomy and not a rectifying of injustice and cruelty on the part of people who are more than unrighteous. Much of what people did and always seem to do is illustrated in the Middle East almost every day and throughout the world for centuries upon centuries.
Don't you think God should do something to intervene?
His biggest intervention so far has been revealed in this historical event: For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.…