Do you support vigilanteism?
Should those who kill people who commit heinous crimes (rape, murder, child molestation, etc.) be charged with crimes? What's your take on vigilanteism? Do you support vigilantes, or not?
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Only if the system fails. Sometimes prosecutors are more interested in being reelected and cops are more interested in protecting themselves to affect justice. Sometimes you have to do it on your own or just remain a sheep.
as angry as things make me...and they do...such thinking only makes a civiliztion fall victim to its own fate...
I good vigilante would not have to kill. One life for another is still unethical either way. If you kill you must answer to your crime, besides the fact that you can claim you are being a vigilante, but you won't always have proof to your claim.
No, I do not support vigilanteism.
Vigilanteism does not provide for a very balanced justice system. When would the killing ever stop? It is far too chaotic to actually be effective, no matter how many "perks" its supporters can come up with.
No, for the soul reason that society cannot be comprised of nothing but rogue warriors for the greater good, that is anarchy. Society needs rules and regulations or we do resort to our most primal state in a bid to survive.
Although I would not support the killing part of this quetsion I do support certain aspects of vigilanteism.
First consider that even those employed by the justice system will admit that the system is not perfect. Innocent people get convicted and guilty people do go free.
I have known good police officers frustrated by rules they must follow that allow the guilty to escape prosecution. None of them would condone a vigilante and yet not one of them has actively pursued one.
The problem arises in assesing the guilt of any criminal. Then there is the issue of rehabilitation. Although I do not think prisons work to rehabilitate the criminal I have a lot of friends with records that have indeed found within themselves a change. From time to time good people make bad mistakes. Being convicted of a single murder does not necessarily make you a bad person.
The vigilante enters into precarious territory when they asssume the guilt of another. If the system can't always get it right how can the vigilante be any better. We can never permit injustices like the Salem witch hunts or the Spanish inquisition to repeat themselves.
This considered it does fall upon the community as a whole to defend itself from heinous crimes. A quote from Edmund Burke that I very much like comes to mind. "All that is needed for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
Yes I support the vigilante. I would caution all who might take this role. None of us is superior in righteousness or qualified to sentence another to a slow painfull death (no matter how tempting).
By all means if you catch a pedophile in the act of raping a child beat the sick SOB into a wheel chair, with my blessing just don't do it in front of any witnesses including the child already victimized. The objective is to isolate the trauma not add to it. Surgery not savagery is the key.
I'd love to be able to say that I trust society and the legal justice system enough to believe that they will exact an appropriate punishment to the criminal. Attorneys, law enforcement officials, judges, and prosecutors all have years of training, education, and experience in their specific field, much more than I do, so if anyone knows what they are doing, it's them.
Then again, if my child was raped, murdered, or molested, I would never feel compelled to apologize for any of my actions in revenge, and the criminal might be better off hoping that the cops find him/her before I do. If it happened to your child, I might not loan you a pistol or help you hack into the police blotters. But I won't try to stop you either, nor pretend that I understand what you are going through.
And I don't think that I'm alone.
this is a real duh question
clearly no. Was it worth asking (no)
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