I apologize if there's already an active thread based on this subject, but I felt that I needed to talk about something.

So long story short, is it ever okay to be a vigilante?

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"I find no black men appealing, they look like giant monkeys." -LilithIshtar (some member of another forum I used to be part of)

Could we get a working definition?

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depends on to what degree? I personally look down on it until it is the very last and only option left. But I have had disagreements with people about when that point is to happen. I have debates where people say that it is needed because peaceful methods don't work, but what they really mean is that the peaceful methods don't work well enough or quick enough for their tastes.

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Seeing, as the "yes" answer is in "some cases" that means that there is a point where it is acceptible. I think that everyone would agree that at some point it it acceptible, the only debate is where is the line.

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I do not agree with Vigilante behavior but I cant promise that if I had a daughter and she was raped that I wouldn't resort to it if nothing else was working.

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Define what you mean. Do you mean tracking someone down and doing a citizen's arrest? Do you mean dragging someone from a car when they hit and run? Do you mean gunning them down instead of letting the police take care of it?

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By my definition I mean being the police when the real ones aren't available.

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"I find no black men appealing, they look like giant monkeys." -LilithIshtar (some member of another forum I used to be part of)

Depends. Does it mean tackling somebody who is running away with an old lady's purse? or does it mean assembling a group of your fellow citizenry, finding, trying, and executing a "criminal" in the street?

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For the most part just catching them but "executing" them if it requires it. What I'm basically saying is taking the law into your own hands.

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"I find no black men appealing, they look like giant monkeys." -LilithIshtar (some member of another forum I used to be part of)

There wasn't a "mostly no" option, so I took "no". Generally speaking, people taking the law into their own hands is a step backward for a functional society.

Catching is okay, depending. No lethal force, no unilateral Final Justice.

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