I am toxic to toxic players

I don't flame out of the blue and on good days, I don't flame to other flamers either, I just mute them, report them and forget about it. However on bad days, I tend to not mute them and respond with my own salvo of toxic slur.

Why? Because of the feeling of injustice it gives me. I feel attacked by them, and on bad days I respond back. So why don't I just report them and hope for the best. Well that's where the problem starts. It's not just the injustice I feel towards me from the toxic player, but also the injustice I feel from Riot, not responding hard enough towards these players. It seems rare that you get the message that a toxic player has been penalized. If I knew for a certainty that a person that called me a 'monkey', 'cancer', etc would get banned, I would have a lot more peace with it, knowing he would get banned, however the chances of someone that's calling your mother a slut, getting banned are slim, because well he just might be having a bad day.. Well I am having bad days too and for that reason I can flame back without consequences, so it seems.

Toxic behaviour should be punished sooner, but maybe less hard, so people know when they overstepped their boundries. Instead Riot only punished when things are so toxic that it's completely psychotic and that's just too little too late. Give people single day bans for the slightest of things and I'm pretty sure they'll think twice next time they flame, instead of handing out a permaban when someone is the equivalent of Hitler online after a shitload of toxicity.